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Arthur Symons - Prologue For A Modern Painter
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To AUGUSTUS JOHN 


Hear the hymn of the body of man: 
This is how the world began; 
In these tangles of mighty flesh 
The stuff of the earth is moulded afresh. 

What Struggles and cries in eyes and cheeks? 
The stir of the sap that awakes and seeks 
To give again the gift it receives 
And burgeon into buds and leaves; 

The sadness and the ardour of life, 
Violent animal peace, the strife 
Of woman`s instinct and man`s blood 
With patterns of beauty and rules of good. 

Here nature is, alive and untamed, 
Unafraid and unashamed; 
Here man knows woman with the greed 
Of Adam`s wonder, the primal need. 

The spirit of life cries out and hymns 
In all the muscles of these limbs; 
And the holy spirit of appetite 
Wakes the browsing body with morning light.
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