Arts & Sciences
To W. Story
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
Story ! whose sire maintained the cause
Of freedom and impartial laws,
How would he have rejoiced to see
A field far smoother trod by thee.
Ah ! could he from the grave but hear
The voice of Europe, far and near,
Extol thy sculptures that retrace
What Rome had lost of attic grace.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To W. Story.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/268/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To W. Story.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/268/.
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