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 TO TINTORETTO IN VENICE

ASTER, thy enterprise,

Magnificent, magnanimous, was well done,

Which seized the head of Art, and turned her eyes—

The simpleton—and made her front the sun.

Long had she sat content,

Her young unlessoned back to a morning gay,

To a solemn noon, to a cloudy firmament,

And looked upon a world in gentle day.

But thy imperial call

Bade her to stand with thee and breast the light,

And therefore face the shadows, mystical,

Sombre, translucent, vestiges of night,

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