Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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TO E. C. P.
You do me wrong, my friend. I never said
That fault of heart is screened by charm of face,
Or bade you look for love, then take instead
A thin veneer of superficial grace.
I did but amplify a common thought,
That light without is born of flame within,
That pure and noble lines of feature ought
To image forth a soul unmarred by sin.
There is a formal beauty all of earth,
A poor deceptive thing of little worth;
Of that I spake not. To the Poet's eye
One God illumes all good since Time began;
The rest he looks on but in passing by
To realise the perfect type of man.
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