Sculpture, too, may furnish material for good poetry, as witness this description of the marble figures upon the tomb in the Church of Brou.
“So rest, forever rest, O princely Pair!
In your high church ‘mid the still mountain air,
Where horn and hound and vassals never come.
Only the blessed saints are smiling dumb
From the rich painted windows of the nave
On aisle and transept and your marble grave;
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So sleep, forever sleep, O marble Pair!
Or if ye wake, let it be then, when fair