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BY MRS. MARY G. HORSFORD.
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Leonardo de Vinci is said to have been four years employed upon the portrait of Mona Lisa, a fair Florentine, without being able, after all, to come up to the idea of her beauty.
Artist! lay the brush aside,
Twilight gathers chill and gray;
Turn the picture to the wall—
Thou hast wrought in vain to-day.
Thrice twelve months have hastened by
Since thy canvas first grew bright