<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508153" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Canvas For A Crust</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aye, Montecelli, that's the name.<br>You may have heard of him perhaps.<br>Yet though he never savoured fame,<br>Of those impressionistic chaps,<br>Monet and Manet and Renoir<br> He was the avatar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He festered in a Marseilles slum,<br>A starving genius, god-inspired.<br>You'd take him for a lousy bum,<br>Tho' poetry of paint he lyred,<br>In dreamy pastels each a gem: . . .<br> How people laughed at them!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He peddled paint from bar to bar;<br>From sordid rags a jewel shone,<br>A glow of joy and colour far<br>From filth of fortune woe-begone.<br>'Just twenty francs,' he shyly said,<br> 'To take me drunk to bed.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of Van Gogh and Cezanne a peer;<br>In dreams of ecstasy enskied,<br>A genius and a pioneer,<br>Poor, paralysed and mad he died:<br>Yet by all who hold Beauty dear<br> May he be glorified!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><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=508153" data-title="A Canvas For A Crust de Robert William Service" data-description="Aye, Montecelli, that's the name. You may have heard of him perhaps. Yet though he never savoured fame, Of those impressionistic chaps, Monet and Manet and Renoir He was the avatar. He festered in a Marseilles slum, A starving genius, god-inspir..."></div> </div> </div>

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