19/45 Out of the same quarry from which _Pauline_ was hewn the rest were hewn. They are polished, richly sculptured, hammered into fair form, but the stone is the same. Few have been so consistent as Browning, few so true to their early inspiration. He is among those happy warriors Who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, have wrought Upon the plan that pleased their boyish thought. _Paracelsus_, in order to give the poem a little local colour, opens at Wuerzburg in a garden, and in the year 1512. |