The Painter of Madonnas, And Other Poems

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Fair and vast The world expanded around me, quickened, grew From twilight into daylight, blossomed through.
Old passes, gray and dim with darkness, turned To flowering vistas ; clouded heights that spurned The sunlight now glowed purple; from the wold Mists shrunk and left it haloed with pure gold.
Then foil and foible, tint and tinsel dropt From life and left it lustrous ; trifling stopt And aims grew boundless. Purpose mounted high With will to master those great arts that vie In forms of nob
...le beauty. He who loves One face in all the thousands, ever moves In highering circles, never is content To rest but one thing, has his purpose bent To be musician, scupltor, painter, yea, And poet ; yearning, striving thus in lay Or statue, portrait, poem, to unseal His soul's high secret; find for his ideal An adequate expression ; tries to cramp 10 THE PAINTER OF MADONNAS His spirit into lyric, epic ; stamp A shapeless mass with form and feature ; paint A picture in the likeness of a saint Or the Madonna, symbol to the heart The nearest, of the object he enshrines Within the holiest of holies, twines His soul to, worships, — such, love's art.

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