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An Artist Of The Beautiful

George Fuller

    Haunted of Beauty, like the marvellous youth

    Who sang Saint Agnes' Eve! How passing fair

    Her shapes took color in thy homestead air!

    How on thy canvas even her dreams were truth!

    Magician! who from commonest elements

    Called up divine ideals, clothed upon

    By mystic lights soft blending into one

    Womanly grace and child-like innocence.

    Teacher I thy lesson was not given in vain.

    Beauty is goodness; ugliness is sin;

    Art's place is sacred: nothing foul therein

    May crawl or tread with bestial feet profane.

    If rightly choosing is the painter's test,

    Thy choice, O master, ever was the best

 By John Greenleaf Whittier

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