RUSKIN.
HE held tho torch aloft of noble aim In art, in life, when art and life lay bound, And coal and iron ami steam ruled English ground, And Labour blind beneath the smoke and flame Of greed was driven, Beauty but a name. Hope from tho mountains brought he, hope now found; New birth in .art ho heralded and crowned, And laid at Nature's shrino Truth's utmost claim. He from the storied past, as from a well, Drow water bright, to sparkle in tho sun Of living hopes and fears, or in tho glass Of art saw Beauty's face, and with her shell Close to his ear held sweet discourse, and won World-listeners, grieving now that voico should pass. WALTER. CRANE. January 22. ____^___
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11367, 9 May 1900, Page 3
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