| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39474 |
| QUOTATION: | Do thou, then breathe those thoughts into my mind By which such virtue may in me be bred That in thy holy footsteps I may tread: The fetters of my tongue do thou unbind, That I may have the power to sing of thee And sound thy praises everlastingly |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Michelangelo Buonarroti (14741564), Italian artist. For Inspiration (l. 914). . .
Treasury of Poems for Worship and Devotion, A. Charles L. Wallis, ed. (1959) Harper & Brothers. |
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