Christian Art Of The Catacombs.
By An Anglican.
“I do love those ancient ruins:
We never tread upon them but we set
Our foot upon some reverend history.”—Webster (1620).
“Quamlibet ancipites texant hinc inde recessus,
Arcta sub umbrosis atria porticibus;
Attamen excisi subter cava viscera montis
Crebra terebrato fornice lux penetrat;
Sic datur absentis per subterranea solis