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18	  ISLE OF WIGHT 

  	   Written on receiving a painting of the Isle 

  	    Isle of beauty, thou art singing
21	      To my sense a sweet refrain;
  	    To my busy mem'ry bringing
  	      Scenes that I would see again. 
 
  Miscellaneous Writings --- Poems                                              
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 1	    Chief, the charm of thy reflecting,
  	      Is the moral that it brings;
 3	    Nature, with the mind connecting,
  	      Gives the artist's fancy wings. 

  	    Soul, sublime 'mid human debris,
 6	      Paints the limner's work, I ween,
  	    Art and Science, all unweary,
  	      Lighting up this mortal dream. 

 9	    Work ill-done within the misty
  	      Mine of human thoughts, we see
  	    Soon abandoned when the Master
12	      Crowns life's Cliff for such as we. 

  	    Students wise, he maketh now thus
  	      Those who fish in waters deep,
15	    When the buried Master hails us
  	      From the shores afar, complete. 

  	    Art hath bathed this isthmus-lordling
18	      In a beauty strong and meek
  	    As the rock, whose upward tending
  	      Points the plane of power to seek. 

21	    Isle of beauty, thou art teaching
  	      Lessons long and grand, to-night,
  	    To my heart that would be bleaching
24	      To thy whiteness, Cliff of Wight.