Life And Art

By Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Said Life to Art—”I love thee best
Not when I find in thee
My very face and form, expressed
With dull fidelity,
“But when in thee my craving eyes
Behold continually
The mystery of my memories
And all I long to be.”

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