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A thousand forms and passions glow
Upon the world-wide canvas. So
With larger scope our art we ply;
And if the crown be harder won,
Diviner rays around it run,
With strains of fuller harmony.

 

Francis Turner Palgrave

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The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

 

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