Portrait of a Man (believed to be a self-portrait)

Andrea del Sarto (Itália, 1486 - 1531)

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THE MASTER HAND

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Written before Andrea del Sarto's Portrait of Himself

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The master hand lifted the brush, and lo,

-- Colour and light took form at his command,

When Death struck down with an immortal blow

-- - -- -- -- -- - The master hand.

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A heap of clay becomes a heap of sand,

-- The mad, tumultuous centuries bestow

Laurel and dust to sweeten Death's demand.

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Dust chills desire, and laurel lieth low,

-- But art's eternal hills triumphant stand --

Whose summits feel in one long afterglow

-- - -- -- -- -- - The master hand.

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Ellen Glascow (American 1874-1945)

The freeman and other poems

New York, 1902, Doubleday

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