<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119034" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Art</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She stood a vision vestureless and fair,<br> Glowing the canvas with her orient grace:<br> A goddess grave she stood, with such a face<br>As in Elysium the immortals wear.<br>But some, unworthy, as they pondered there,<br>Cold to the marvel of her look divine—<br>Saw but a form undraped, in Beauty's shrine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then she, it seemed, rebuked them: "Old and<br> young<br> Have worshiped at the temple where I breathe,<br> And deathless laurels, for my sake, enwreathe<br>The brows of him from whose pure thought I<br> sprung:<br>Lips consecrate as yours his praise have sung,—<br>Who neither sued for praise nor courted ease,<br>But reverently wrought, as from his knees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"No raiment can the base or mean reclaim,<br> And that which sacred is must sacred be,<br> Clothed but in rags or robed in modesty.<br>In the endeavor still is felt the aim:<br>The workman may by skill exalt his name,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, toiling fault and failure to redeem,<br>Cannot create what's loftier than his dream!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"For chaste must be the soul that chastely sees,<br> The thought enlightened, and the insight sure<br> That separates the pure from the impure;<br>And who Earth's humblest faith from error frees,<br>Awakening ideal sympathies,<br>Uplifts the savage from his kindred sod;<br>Who shows him beauty speaks to him of God!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119034" data-title="Art de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="She stood a vision vestureless and fair,/ Glowing the canvas with her orient grace:/ A goddess grave she stood, with such a face/As in Elysium the immortals wear./But some, unworthy, as they pondered there,/Cold to the marvel of her look divine—..."></div> </div> </div>

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