Lines in Pleasant Places Rhythmics of many moods and quantities. Wise and otherwise |
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[Hogarth affirmed the line of beauty lay] |
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[Hogarth affirmed the line of beauty lay]
Hogarth affirmed the line of beauty layIn curves, and may be he was in the right;
But I affirm, myself, despite his say,
That other lines give full as much delight.
His zigzag crook attracts a crooked mind;
But what so gracefully the eye may fill
As that great evidence of taste refined,
The straight-lined shaft that graces Bunker Hill?
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Which we, as independent freemen, choose;
He who sees beauty in a flat brick wall
Of course old Hogarth's dogma will refuse.
Show me a beauty rarer, more divine,
Than that of a good, paying railroad line.
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