Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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"And deepening through the silent spheres,
Heaven over Heaven rose the night."

DRAWN BY TAYLOR.

TWO LOVERS.

Two lovers by a moss-grown spring :
They leaned soft cheeks together there,
Mingled the dark and sunny hair,
And heard the wooing thrushes sing.
O budding time !
O loves blest prime !

Two wedded from the portal stept:
The bells made happy carollings,
The air was soft as fanning wings,
White petals on the pathway slept.
O pure-eyed bride !
O tender pride !

Two faces o'er a cradle bent:
Two hands above the head were locked;
These pressed each other while they rocked,
Those watched a life that love had sent.
O solemn hour!
0 hidden power!
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CELIA.
PHOTO-ETCHING FROM AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
BY
W. L. TAYLOR.

In this excellent drawing Mr. Taylor very well depicts the fair Celia in George Eliot's
"Middlemarch," when she was all in white and lavender like a bunch of mixed violets. Perhaps
here the following quotation from Sir Charles Sedley, which appears in the same volume, would not
be misapplied :

"All that in woman is adored
In thy fair self I find,
For the whole sex can but afford
The handsome and the kind."

AMERICAN ART 321

Two parents by the evening fire :
The red light fell about their knees
On heads that rose by slow degrees
Like buds upon the lily spire.
O patient life !
O tender strife!

The two still sat together there;
The red light shone about their knees ;
But all the heads by slow degrees
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
O voyage fast!
O vanished past!

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