"The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature."
"We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship."
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Source: William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132
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