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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Coin du Parc 1902 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Vase par Cornu 1902 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Vase par Cornu 1903 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Vase (detail) ca. 1906-1907 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Le Rhone 1901 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Fontaine du Point du Jour (Limier abattant un Cerf) 1903 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Fontaine du Point du Jour (Tigre terrassant un Ours) 1903 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Fontaine de Diane ca. 1901 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
During the Service
How strange my lack of faith must seem to you.
I see the way your god provides a cradle for your grief;
how lovely to be certain that the ancient story's true.
You sang the hymns as if each word were new –
At last, you sang, at last in Your / Eternal arms I'll find relief
(how strange my lack of faith must seem to you) –
while I kept drifting, lost in the refrains and in the blue
fragility the tinted glass provided us to bow beneath
(how lovely to be certain that the ancient story's true).
Beneath the moderated sky we rose and sang and cried on cue;
familiar words were read to keep our sorrow brief
(how sad my lack of faith must seem to you);
the book upon the altar and the hymnals in each pew
held pages edged in fine gold leaf –
how lovely seeing that the ancient story's true –
and I was wondering just what it cost to see this vaulting through:
the ceilings, windows, ornaments; the engineering of belief . . .
But let my lack of faith seem strange to you!
You're lovely certain that the ancient story's true.
– Carrie Grabo (2001)
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe 1904 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe 1904 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe 1903 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Bassin du Midi 1901 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Abduction of Proserpine by Pluto 1904 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugène Atget Versailles - Abduction of Proserpine by Pluto (Base) 1904 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |