Arts & Sciences
A Painter's Reproof
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
Reviler ! you should have been taught
Better than to hold kings at nought.
Look on my pallet ; don't you see
How precious some of them may be ?
Let them, like mummies, be well ground,
And then their uses may be found,
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Painter's Reproof.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/253/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Painter's Reproof.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/253/.
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