Watts/buildings

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    Be thou our guard while troubles last,
    And our eternal home.
    —Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

    The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)