Our wearier spirit faints,
Vexed in the world‘s employ:
His soul was of the saints;
And art to him was joy. (Lionel Johnson)

Our wearier spirit faints, Vexed in the world‘s employ: His soul was of the saints; And art to him was joy.

Lionel Johnson

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