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THE BIG ROUGH STATUE 



HERE was once a burly, 

 big-chested Peasant Boy 

 who had an idea. He was 

 full of it, mad to express it ; 

 but he did not know how. He went to a 

 rugged mountain-side one night when his 

 work was finished, and he saw a great crag 

 standing out by itself. Then a plan came. 

 He went every night and worked at this 

 mass of living rock till he had shaped his 

 idea in stone. It was rough and chisel- 

 grooved, unskilfully worked, for he was 

 no mason, but the main thought was 

 there — the lines of a superb and colossal 

 human form. The pose, the expression, 

 the grandeur of the conception, were 

 noble, as it loomed against the sky, and 

 the message of the maker was big — big 



