grey with the beat of many days' sun, from sunrise to
sunset; showing white sometimes, too, when the sun strikes it strongly;
snowy-white, sometimes, when the moon is on it, and the shadows growing
blacker; but grey now, fretted into black by the mitres of the bishops,
by the solemn covered heads of the prophets, by the company of the risen,
and the long robes of the judgment-angels, by hell-mouth and its flames
gaping there, and the devils that feed it; by the saved souls and the
crowning angels; by the presence of the Judge, and by the roses growing
above them all for ever.

Farewell to the spire, gilt all over with gold once, and shining out
there, very gloriously; dull and grey now, alas; but still it catches,
through its interlacement of arches, the intensest blue of the blue
summer sky; and, sometimes at night you may see the stars shining through
it.

It is fair still, though the gold is gone, the spire that seems to rock,
when across it, in the wild February nights, the clouds go westward.

Footnotes:

{21} See Thorpe's _Northern Mythology_, vol. ii, p. 214.

{156} In the explanatory remarks accompanying the engravings from
Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel, published by the Arundel Society.
I regret not being able to give the reference to the passage, not having
the work by me.

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