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A block of marble was so fine, / To buy it did a sculptor hasten. / 'What shall my chisel, now 'tis mine -- / A god, a table, or a basin?'
'A god,' said he, 'the thing shall be; / I'll arm it, too, with thunder. / Let people quake, and bow the knee / With reverential wonder.'