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BEAUTY ...God sees all "How can God's eye endure ugliness all round ?" If you wish to know, with an artist's eye Look closely at a ruin, at cobwebs In sunlight, at matted straw In fields, at potter's clay - - He gave us all, even His traces, As He perceives things, have no envy, have no shame! Yet there is sun-gilded Pride Convinced the sun will not shine through her; She is the end of sight and contemplation, She is the screen against God's rays, So that man, the most ungrateful creature in the world, Should feel extinguished brightness and night in his eyes - In every art let all arts gleam, save the one Through which the work is to be done. |