<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To An American Embassy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written At Florence, 1866:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Since Sovereign Nature, at the happy best,<br>Is rightful and sole paragon of Art,<br>Who, tho' she but in part, and part by part,<br>Paints, carves, or sings the whole, is still possest<br>By thee, all thee, oh somewhere unconfest<br>Apollo! in the worlds of men who art<br>A man, and, with a human body and heart,<br>Lookest her visible truths, and livest the rest;<br>Surely that strategy was well design'd<br>Which, laying siege to Art's proud Capital,<br>Armed not, against her matchless pow'rs-that-be,<br>Music, Painting, Sculpture, Poetry,<br>But sent a living womanhood of all<br>To queen, by their own laws, the masters of mankind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sydney+Thompson+Dobell">Sydney Thompson Dobell</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=523218" data-title="To An American Embassy de Sydney Thompson Dobell" data-description="Written At Florence, 1866: Since Sovereign Nature, at the happy best, Is rightful and sole paragon of Art, Who, tho' she but in part, and part by part, Paints, carves, or sings the whole, is still possest By thee, all thee, oh somewhere unconfes..."></div> </div> </div>

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