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Title: Raphael Author: John Greenleaf Whittier [More Titles by Whittier] I shall not soon forget that sight: It was a simple print I saw, A simple print:--the graceful flow Yet through its sweet and calm repose As if, as Gothland's sage has told, Was it the lifting of that eye, The narrow room had vanished,--space, Around the mighty master came There drooped thy more than mortal face, The rapt brow of the Desert John; And, midst gray prophet forms, and wild There Fornarina's fair young face Slow passed that vision from my view, The truth, that painter, bard, and sage, We shape ourselves the joy or fear The tissue of the Life to be Still shall the soul around it call Think ye the notes of holy song O no!--We live our life again -THE END- GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |