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Art's use what is it but to touch the springs / Of nature? But to hold a torch up for / Humanity in Life's large corridor, / To guide the feet of peasants and of kings!
What is it but to carry union through / Thoughts alien to thoughts kindred, and to merge / The lines of colour that should not diverge, / And give the sun a window to shine through!
What is it but to make the world have heed / For what its dull eyes else would hardly scan, / To draw in a stark light a shameless deed,
And show the fashion of a kingly man!
To cherish honour, and to smite all shame, / To lend hearts voices, and give thoughts a name!