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I could have painted pictures like that youth's	A
Ye praise so How my soul springs up No bar	B
Stayed me ah thought which saddens while it soothes	C
Never did fate forbid me star by star	B
To outburst on your night with all my gift	D
Of fires from God nor would my flesh have shrunk	E
From seconding my soul with eyes uplift	D
And wide to heaven or straight like thunder sunk	E
To the centre of an instant or around	F
Turned calmly and inquisitive to scan	G
The license and the limit space and bound	F
Allowed to Truth made visible in man	G
And like that youth ye praise so all I saw	H
Over the canvas could my hand have flung	I
Each face obedient to its passion's law	H
Each passion clear proclaimed without a tongue	I
Whether Hope rose at once in all the blood	J
A tip toe for the blessing of embrace	K
Or Rapture drooped the eyes as when her brood	L
Pull down the nesting dove's heart to its place	K
Or Confidence lit swift the forehead up	M
And locked the mouth fast like a castle braved	N
O human faces hath it spilt my cup	M
What did ye give me that I have not saved	N
Nor will I say I have not dreamed how well	O
Of going I in each new picture forth	P
As making new hearts beat and bosoms swell	O
To Pope or Kaiser East West South or North	P
Bound for the calmly satisfied great State	Q
Or glad aspiring little burgh it went	R
Flowers cast upon the car which bore the freight	Q
Through old streets named afresh from the event	R
Till it reached home where learned Age should greet	S
My face and Youth the star not yet distinct	T
Above his hair lie learning at my feet	S
Oh thus to live I and my picture linked	T
With love about and praise till life should end	U
And then not go to Heaven but linger here	V
Here on my earth earth's every man my friend	U
The thought grew frightful 'twas so wildly dear	W
But a voice changed it Glimpses of such sights	X
Have scared me like the revels through a door	Y
Of some strange house of idols at its rites	X
This world seemed not the world it was before	Y
Mixed with my loving trusting ones there trooped	Z
Who summoned those cold faces that begun	A2
To press on me and judge me Though I stooped	Z
Shrinking as from the soldiery a nun	A2
They drew me forth and spite of me enough	B2
These buy and sell our pictures take and give	C2
Count them for garniture and household stuff	B2
And where they live needs must our pictures live	D2
And see their faces listen to their prate	Z
Partakers of their daily pettiness	E2
Discussed of This I love or this I hate	Z
This likes me more and this affects me less	F2
Wherefore I chose my portion If at whiles	G2
My heart sinks as monotonous I paint	Z
These endless cloisters and eternal aisles	G2
With the same series Virgin Babe and Saint	Z
With the same cold calm beautiful regard	Z
At least no merchant traffics in my heart	Z
The sanctuary's gloom at least shall ward	Z
Vain tongues from where my pictures stand apart	Z
Only prayer breaks the silence of the shrine	H2
While blackening in the daily candle smoke	I2
They moulder on the damp wall's travertine	H2
'Mid echoes the light footstep never woke	I2
So die my pictures surely gently die	Z
O youth men praise so holds their praise its worth	J2
Blown harshly keeps the trump its golden cry	Z
Tastes sweet the water with such specks of earth	J2

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