ART’S LESSON.
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O glorious marble statue, What gain I looking at you? Your beauty is so old, You are a form so cold I can not understand you Nor feel for him who planned you. I easier lessons seek Than those in chiseled Greek. I turn to you my fragrant; Bedewed and straggling vagrant, You are a simple flower, And scarce live out the hour Here in the garden by-way (That still is Nature’s highway!) Yet utter from the grass Lessons from Phidias!