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No. 4. (Price One Shilling.) May, 1850.
With an Etching by W. H. Deverell.
With an Etching by W. H. Deverell.
Art and Poetry:
Being Thoughts towards Nature
Being Thoughts towards Nature
Conducted principally by Artists.
When whoso merely hath a little thought
Will plainly think the thought which is in him
Not imaging another's bright or dim,
Not mangling with new words what others taught;
When whoso speaks, from having either sought
Or only found,—will speak, not just to skim
A shallow surface with words _****_ and trim,
But in that very speech the matter brought:
We not too keen to tell—"So this is all!—
A thing I might myself have thought as well,
But would not say it, for it was not worth!
Ask: Is this truth? For is it still to tell
What, be the theme a point or the whole earth,
Truth is a circle, perfect, great or small?
Will plainly think the thought which is in him
Not imaging another's bright or dim,
Not mangling with new words what others taught;
When whoso speaks, from having either sought
Or only found,—will speak, not just to skim
A shallow surface with words _****_ and trim,
But in that very speech the matter brought:
We not too keen to tell—"So this is all!—
A thing I might myself have thought as well,
But would not say it, for it was not worth!
Ask: Is this truth? For is it still to tell
What, be the theme a point or the whole earth,
Truth is a circle, perfect, great or small?
London:
Dickinson & Co., 114, NEW BOND STREET
AND
AYLOTT & JONES, 8, PATERNOSTER ROW.
Dickinson & Co., 114, NEW BOND STREET
AND
AYLOTT & JONES, 8, PATERNOSTER ROW.
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