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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420904" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nature and Art For an Album</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Man goeth forth' with reckless trust <br>Upon his wealth of mind, <br>As if in self a thing of dust <br>Creative skill might find; <br>He schemes and toils; stone, wood and ore <br>Subject or weapon of His power. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By arch and spire, by tower-girt heights, <br>He would his boast fulfil; <br>By marble births, and mimic lights,— <br>Yet lacks one secret still; <br>Where is the master-hand shall give <br>To breathe, to move, to speak, to live? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O take away this shade of might, <br>The puny toil of man, <br>And let great Nature in my sight <br>Unroll her gorgeous plan; <br>I cannot bear those sullen walls, <br>Those eyeless towers, those tongueless halls. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Art's labour'd toys of highest name <br>Are nerveless, cold, and dumb; <br>And man is fitted but to frame <br>A coffin or a tomb; <br>Well suits, when sense is pass'd away, <br>Such lifeless works the lifeless clay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here let me sit where wooded hills <br>Skirt yon far-reaching plain; <br>While cattle bank its winding rills, <br>And suns embrown its grain; <br>Such prospect is to me right dear, <br>For freedom, health, and joy are here. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a spirit ranging through <br>The earth, the stream, the air; <br>Ten thousand shapes, garbs ever new, <br>That busy One doth wear; <br>In colour, scent, and taste, and sound <br>The energy of Life is found. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The leaves are rustling in the breeze, <br>The bird renews her song; <br>From field to brook, o'er heath, o'er trees, <br>The sunbeam glides along; <br>The insect, happy in its hour, <br>Floats softly by, or sips the flower. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now dewy rain descends, and now <br>Brisk showers the welkin shroud; <br>I care not, though with angry brow <br>Frowns the red thunder-cloud; <br>Let hail-storm pelt, and lightning harm, <br>'Tis Nature's work, and has its charm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! lovely Nature! others dwell <br>Full favour'd in thy court; <br>I of thy smiles but hear them tell, <br>And feed on their report, <br>Catching what glimpse an Ulcombe yields <br>To strangers loitering in her fields. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I go where form has ne'er unbent <br>The sameness of its sway; <br>Where iron rule, stern precedent, <br>Mistreat the graceful day; <br>To pine as prisoner in his cell, <br>And yet be thought to love it well. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet so His high dispose has set, <br>Who binds on each his part; <br>Though absent, I may cherish yet <br>An Ulcombe of the heart; <br>Calm verdant hope divinely given, <br>And suns of peace, and scenes of heaven;— </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A soul prepared His will to meet, <br>Full fix'd His work to do; <br>Not laboured into sudden heat, <br>But inly born anew.— <br>So living Nature, not dull Art, <br>Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Henry+Newman">John Henry Newman</a><div class=q>
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Upon his wealth of mind, 
As if in self a thing of dust 
Creative skill might find; 
He schemes and toils; stone, wood and ore 
Subject or weapon of His power. 

By arch and spire, by tower-girt heights, 
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