THE ARTIST'S QUEEN.
1 An artist once gave to the canvas & tea*
Tliat tho wise came miles to see. A lovelight glanco in f yes all a-dance He had caught in its subtlety.
He bad given a crown to the regal on 6 And knights at her command, But the girllike mien was not of a queen, Though courtiers kissed her hand.
And the critics said, as they gazed enrapt, ' That the rank of a queen was not there, Though there never was such grace and such touch i Or a face more delicate,'fair.
And tliey hied to the artist and found (that ho Was in quarters poor and bare. But he held to his heart the counterpart Of a rustic piaiden there. —Detroit Free Press.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 89, 20 April 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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126THE ARTIST'S QUEEN. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 89, 20 April 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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