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<h2> THE TORCH </h2>
<p>Art’s use what is it but to touch the springs<br/>
Of nature? But to hold a torch up for<br/>
Humanity in Life’s large corridor,<br/>
To guide the feet of peasants and of kings!<br/>
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What is it but to carry union through<br/>
Thoughts alien to thoughts kindred, and to merge<br/>
The lines of colour that should not diverge,<br/>
And give the sun a window to shine through!<br/>
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What is it but to make the world have heed<br/>
For what its dull eyes else would hardly scan,<br/>
To draw in a stark light a shameless deed,<br/>
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And show the fashion of a kingly man!<br/>
To cherish honour, and to smite all shame,<br/>
To lend hearts voices, and give thoughts a name!<br/></p>
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