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Oliver Wendell Holmes - A Toast To Wilkie Collins
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FEBRUARY 16, 1874

THE painter`s and the poet`s fame
Shed their twinned lustre round his name,
To gild our story-teller`s art,
Where each in turn must play his part.

What scenes from Wilkie`s pencil sprung,
The minstrel saw but left unsung!
What shapes the pen of Collins drew,
No painter clad in living hue!

But on our artist`s shadowy screen
A stranger miracle is seen
Than priest unveils or pilgrim seeks,--
The poem breathes, the picture speaks!

And so his double name comes true,
They christened better than they knew,
And Art proclaims him twice her son,--
Painter and poet, both in one!
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