Busy his thoughts with a project bold.
“The master will find,” he said to himself,
“’Tis not well to work in the dark and the cold!”
VI
But the master, unheeding the prentice lad,
Matched the mosaics fine and quaint;
Till his tablets of stone revealed the forms
Of Mother and Child, of cherub and saint.
VII
Buonamico, meanwhile, forsook his tasks,