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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.

— Robert Williams Buchanan

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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.

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