<p><SPAN name="BEAUTY" id="BEAUTY"></SPAN>BEAUTY</p>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sometimes, slow moving through unlovely days,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The need to look on beauty falls on me</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">As on the blind the anguished wish to see,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">As on the dumb the urge to rage or praise;</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Beauty of marble where the eyes may gaze</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Till soothed to peace by white serenity,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Or canvas where one master hand sets free</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Great colours that like angels blend and blaze.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">O, there be many starved in this strange wise—</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">For this diviner food their days deny,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Knowing beyond their vision beauty stands</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With pitying eyes—with tender, outstretched hands,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Eager to give to every passer-by</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The loveliness that feeds a soul's demands.</span><br/>
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