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Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought,
The singer, upward-springing,
Is grander than his singing,
And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought.
Undertones (1883)
Along the melting shores of earth
An emerald flame there ran,
Forest and field grew bright, and mirth
Gladdened the flocks of man.
Balder the Beautiful (1877)
All that is beautiful shall abide,
All that is base shall die.
Balder the Beautiful (1877)
So bent on self-sanctifying,—
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.
Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.
It is not that I mourn you,
To mourn you were to scorn you,
For you are one step nearer to the beauty singers seek.
Undertones (1883)
But whosoe’er shall conquer Death,
Tho’ mortal man he be,
Shall in his season rise again,
And live, with thee, and me!
Balder the Beautiful (1877)
Then glory grew on earth and heaven,
Full glory of full day!
Balder the Beautiful (1877)
I saw the starry Tree
Eternity
Put forth the blossom Time.
Believing hath a core of unbelieving.
O Balder, he who fashion’d us,
And bade us live and move,
Shall weave for Death’s sad heavenly hair
Immortal flowers of love.
Balder the Beautiful (1877)
So hath he hunted down the gods
As well as human things!
Balder the Beautiful (1877)
Full of a sweet indifference.
I ask no more from mortals
Than your beautiful face implies,—
The beauty the artist beholding
Interprets and sanctifies.
Who says that men have fallen,
That life is wretched and rough?
I say, the world is lovely,
And that loveliness is enough.
In Balder's hand Christ placed his own,
And it was golden weather,
And on that berg as on a throne
The Brethren stood together!
And countless voices far and wide
Sang sweet beneath the sky
All that is beautiful shall abide,
All that is base shall die!