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Along the melting shores of earth
An emerald flame there ran,
Forest and field grew bright, and mirth
Gladdened the flocks of man.

— Robert Williams Buchanan Balder the Beautiful (1877)

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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)

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)

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