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Architecture

IWhat manner of building shall we build?Let us design a chastel de chasteté.De pensée. . . .Never cease to deploy the structure.Keep the laborers shouldering plinths.Pass the whole of life earing the clink of theChisels of the stone-cutters cutting the stones.
IIIn this house, what manner of utterance shall there be?What heavenly dithyrambAnd cantilene?What niggling forms of gargoyle patter?Of what shall the speech be,In that splay of marbleAnd of obedient pillars?
IIIAnd how shall those come vested that come there?In their ugly reminders?Or gaudy as tulips?As they climb the stairs

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