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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poet's Biography
First Line: Immurmurous hall, with aisles of grateful shade
Last Line: The flower of man's creative, god-like mind!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; History; Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York; World's Fairs; Expositions; Historians
First Line: Immurmurous hall, with aisles of grateful shade
Last Line: The flower of man's creative, god-like mind!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; History; Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York; World's Fairs; Expositions; Historians
Immurmurous Hall, with aisles of grateful shade,
Hushed refuge from the tumult of the street,
Be thou my Fane, with sculptured gods replete,
Mine altar dim—my sanctuary glade!
With genius rare on every side displayed,
Dearer thou art than dreams of waving wheat
In dales of vanished Youth!—O rich retreat
Throbbing with garnered shapes that never fade!
The deathless dead are round me. In these rooms
Glow the achieved summits of mankind:
The marbles breathe: the color flames and glooms—
Immortal Beauty by the soul divined;
Inviolate here, the pure Ideal blooms,
The flower of man's creative, God-like mind!
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