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Oh happy time Art's early days	A
When o'er each deed with sweet self praise	A
Narcissus like I hung	B
When great Rembrandt but little seemed	C
And such Old Masters all were deemed	C
As nothing to the young	B
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Some scratchy strokes abrupt and few	D
So easily and swift I drew	D
Sufficed for my design	E
My sketchy superficial hand	F
Drew solids at a dash and spanned	F
A surface with a line	E
	-
Not long my eye was thus content	G
But grew more critical my bent	G
Essayed a higher walk	H
I copied leaden eyes in lead	I
Rheumatic hands in white and red	I
And gouty feet in chalk	J
	-
Anon my studious art for days	A
Kept making faces happy phrase	A
For faces such as mine	E
Accomplished in the details then	K
I left the minor parts of men	K
And drew the form divine	E
	-
Old Gods and Heroes Trojan Greek	L
Figures long after the antique	L
Great Ajax justly feared	M
Hectors of whom at night I dreamt	N
And Nestor fringed enough to tempt	O
Bird nesters to his beard	M
	-
A Bacchus leering on a bowl	P
A Pallas that out stared her owl	Q
A Vulcan very lame	R
A Dian stuck about with stars	S
With my right hand I murdered Mars	S
One Williams did the same	R
	-
But tired of this dry work at last	T
Crayon and chalk aside I cast	T
And gave my brush a drink	U
Dipping as when a painter dips	V
In gloom of earthquake and eclipse	V
That is in Indian ink	U
	-
Oh then what black Mont Blancs arose	W
Crested with soot and not with snows	W
What clouds of dingy hue	D
In spite of what the bard has penned	X
I fear the distance did not lend	X
Enchantment to the view	D
	-
Not Radcliffe's brush did e'er design	E
Black Forests half so black as mine	E
Or lakes so like a pall	Y
The Chinese cake dispersed a ray	Z
Of darkness like the light of Day	Z
And Martin over all	A2
	-
Yet urchin pride sustained me still	B2
I gazed on all with right good will	B2
And spread the dingy tint	C2
No holy Luke helped me to paint	D2
The devil surely not a Saint	D2
Had any finger in't	E2
	-
But colors came like morning light	F2
With gorgeous hues displacing night	F2
Or Spring's enlivened scene	G2
At once the sable shades withdrew	D
My skies got very very blue	D
My trees extremely green	G2
	-
And washed by my cosmetic brush	H2
How Beauty's cheek began to blush	H2
With lock of auburn stain	I2
Not Goldsmith's Auburn nut brown hair	J2
That made her loveliest of the fair	J2
Not loveliest of the plain	I2
	-
Her lips were of vermilion hue	D
Love in her eyes and Prussian blue	D
Set all my heart in flame	R
A young Pygmalion I adored	K2
The maids I made but time was stored	K2
With evil and it came	R
	-
Perspective dawned and soon I saw	L2
My houses stand against its law	L2
And keeping all unkept	K2
My beauties were no longer things	M2
For love and fond imaginings	M2
But horrors to be wept	K2
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Ah why did knowledge ope my eyes	M2
Why did I get more artist wise	M2
It only serves to hint	K2
What grave defects and wants are mine	E
That I'm no Hilton in design	E
In nature no De Wint	K2
	-
Thrice happy time Art's early days	M2
When o'er each deed with sweet self praise	M2
Narcissus like I hung	B
When great Rembrandt but little seemed	K2
And such Old Masters all were deemed	K2
As nothing to the young	B

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