Article: A View from the Ridge: The Testimony of a Twentieth-Century Christian.

In the little room in the house on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome where the English romantic poet John Keats died, there are displayed for the public replicas of both his life mask and death mask. They are wondrous artifacts to behold because they bridge something of the distance between Keats' time and our own. Of these, it is his death mask that is more beautiful, imparting a sense of perfection and completion to the brief yet intense years that Keats spent on this earth. It is not sad. It is a testament to a full life and to the human spirit that animated it.

The face of a life, especially that of a seeker of beauty and truth, no matter how young or old, ...

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