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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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme AXAX BCBC DEDE AFAF GHGH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 592
Words 110
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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