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II. “INTERPRETERS SUPREME”
Interpreters supreme thine Art will find.
Not in fair France, though flower-crowned France may be
Art's soft-voiced slave, could women range round thee
So purely fair as those by heaven designed
To make thy song a garland for mankind
But chiefliest for this land that, ringed by sea,
Must ever even in Art divinely free
Abide, love-guarded, watched by wave and wind.
Not in fair France, though flower-crowned France may be
Art's soft-voiced slave, could women range round thee
So purely fair as those by heaven designed
To make thy song a garland for mankind
But chiefliest for this land that, ringed by sea,
Must ever even in Art divinely free
Abide, love-guarded, watched by wave and wind.
This all who sing, bay-wreathed in other lands,
Phillips, our English bard, may wildly long,
In vain, to win—that souls so sweet and strong
And such sweet eyes, such lips and such white hands,
Should speak their verses and expound their song:—
The woman who looks the part, she understands.
Phillips, our English bard, may wildly long,
In vain, to win—that souls so sweet and strong
And such sweet eyes, such lips and such white hands,
Should speak their verses and expound their song:—
The woman who looks the part, she understands.
Feb. 11, 1902.
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