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"Enter my palace," if a prince should say -- / "Feast with the Painters! See, in bounteous row, / They range from Titian up to Angelo! " / Could we be silent at the rich survey? / A host so kindly, in as great a way / Invites to banquet, substitutes for show / Sound that 's diviner still, and bids us know / Bach like Beethoven; are we thankless, pray?
Thanks, then, to Arthur Chappell, -- thanks to him / Whose every guest henceforth not idly vaunts / "Sense has received the utmost Nature grants, / My cup was filled with rapture to the brim, / When, night by night, -- ah, memory, how it haunts! -- / Music was poured by perfect ministrants, / By Halle, Schumann, Piatti, Joachim.
_April 5, 1884._