I ask no more from mortals
Than your beautiful face implies,-
The beauty the artist beholding
Interprets and sanctifies.
Who says that men have fallen,
That life is wretched and rough?
I say, the world is lovely,
And that loveliness is enough. (Robert Williams Buchanan)

I ask no more from mortals Than your beautiful face implies,- The beauty the artist beholding Interprets and sanctifies. Who says that men have fallen, That life is wretched and rough? I say, the world is lovely, And that loveliness is enough.

Robert Williams Buchanan

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