Chapter 1 of 23
By Frank Preston Stearns
By Frank Preston Stearns
Author Of “The Real And Ideal In Literature,” “Life Of Tintoretto,” “Life Of Bismarck,” “True Republicanism,” “Cambridge Sketches,” Etc.
INSCRIBED
TO
EMILIA MACIEL STEARNS
“In the elder days of art
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part,—
For the gods see everywhere.”
—Longfellow
“Oh, happy dreams of such a soul have I,
And softly to myself of him I sing,
Whose seraph pride all pride doth overwing;
Who stoops to greatness, matches low with high,
And as in grand equalities of sky,
Stands level with the beggar and the king.”
—Wasson