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XLV. OWNERSHIP.
I am the owner of Beauty!In every curve and line,—
I claim it; I possess it
By right of a power divine!
I'm not the lord of the vineyard,
But I drink the noble wine;
I draw no rent from the acres,
But the lovely landscape's mine.
Volumes and pictures and statues,
In rich men's palaces shine;
I can neither buy nor sell them,
But they're mine in the spirit—mine!
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