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Plaster Saints
Svartsjö church is white both within and
without; the walls, the pulpit, the pews, the
reading-desk, the ceiling, the window-frames, the
altar-cloth, are all white. There are no ornaments,
no pictures nor coats-of-arms. Over the altar stands
a plain wooden cross with a white cloth draped upon
it. It was not always so; in the old days the ceiling
was covered with paintings, and many, many
colored figures, both in stone and plaster,
decorated that house of God.
Once, long, long ago, an artist in Svartsjö had
stood watching the summer sky and the clouds as
they travelled toward the sun. He saw the white,
shining masses lying on the horizon in the early
morning tower higher and higher, saw them expand
and rise to storm the heavens. They lifted sails
like ships and raised standards like warriors. They
were ready to usurp the whole sky. Before the sun,
the ruler of space, these growing monsters changed
their shapes and put on harmless forms. There lay
a devouring lion: he changed to a powdered lady.
There stood a giant with crushing arms: he laid
himself down like a dreaming sphinx. Some of them
covered their white nakedness with golden-edged
mantles; others drew rouge over their cheeks of
snow. There were plains, and there were forests.
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