Annual Oration, 1887 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Annual Oration, 1887

But that prescient spirit saw the fetters, and turned away. Musing, she lifted the coarse block, and, shaping it first in uncouth lines borrowed from the south, sought then, in the image of the ideal visible to her inner eye, to form the nu formed, removing every fetter, every clinging chain, until the marble rose and spoke.

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