Art.
Yes, let Art go, if it must be That with it men must starve - If Music, Painting, Poetry Spring from the wasted hearth. Pluck out the flower, however fair, Whose beauty cannot bloom, (However sweet it be, or rare) Save from a noisome tomb. These social manners, charm and ease, Are hideous to who knows The degradation, the disease From which their beauty flows. So, Poet, must thy singing be; O Painter, so thy scene; Musician, so thy melody, While misery is queen. Nay, brothers, sing us battle-songs With clear and ringing rhyme; Nay, show the world its hateful wrongs, And bring the better time!
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"Yes, let Art go, if it must be..."
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