...truth ; which built that heroic architecture, overmastering therewith the sense and soul of man : " The passive master lent his hand To the vast Soul...reared the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt therein." But the piety which I find now, in this age, here in our own land, I respect, honor, and...

...her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows tho grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive...Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him plann'd, And the same power that rcar'd the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the...

...Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him planned." The poet who gave us these lines speaks farther on in his poem of a great mind that rolled out wisdom...

...them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat These temples grew as crows the grass, Art might olwy plann'd, And the some power that rear'd the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the...

...— men who earnestly believed that through them the Divine mind was pleased to accomplish itself? " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." But the world is full of the mischief and discomfiture wrought by those who have sought for the inspiration...

...them place, Adopted them into Tier race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might...countless host. Trances the heart through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables...

...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might...soul that o'er him planned; • And the same power thit reired the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with...

...Ararat. And granted them an equal date These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but uot surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. And tlie same |K>wer that reared the shrine, Girds with one...

...deify genius, most aptly would Emerson's exquisite lines develope our meaning : ' THESE temples grew ae grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass....his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. And out of thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them place,...

...God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Those temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey,...his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Lowell perhaps comes next. No living poet has a more thorough perception of what art truly is. He is...