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We should not in the field of Reason look to find
less vary and veer than elsewhere in the flux of Life.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God
and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies
In masterful administration of the unforseen.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Pure Reason left to herself
relieth on axioms and essential premises
which she can neither question nor resolve.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly
of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate
or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life,
whereon all function whatsoever in man is based.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Verily by Beauty it is that we come at Wisdom,
yet not by Reason at Beauty.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Goddes love
is unescapable as nature's environment,
which if a man ignore or think to thrust it off
he is the ill-natured fool that runneth on to death.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
I know
that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see
the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences,
the quality of appearances that thru' the sense
wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
The name of happiness is but a wider term
for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,
attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd
to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature
spiritual is by definition unnatural.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee
any better melody in the April woods at dawn
than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake
o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance
be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,
that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach him
dignity morals manners and human comfort,
she can delicatly and dangerously bedizen
the rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
The ground-root folly of this piteous philantropy
is thinking to distribute indivisibles,
and make equality in things incommensurable:
forged under such delusions, all Utopias
are castles in the air or counsels of despair.
The Testament of Beauty (1929)