MEMORABILIA. 1. Aн, did you once see Shelley plain, 2. But you were living before that, And the memory I started at My starting moves your laughter! 3. I crossed a moor with a name of its own And a use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about 4. For there I picked up on the heather And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-featherWell, I forget the rest. 11 ANDREA DEL SARTO. 66 BUT do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: This evening more than usual, and it seems you let me sit Here by the window with your hand in mine Your soft hand is a woman of itself, དད And mine the man's bared breast she curls inside. Don't count the time lost, either; you must serve For each of the five pictures we require — It saves a model. So! keep looking so - How could you ever prick those perfect ears, Even to put the pearl there! oh, so sweet My face, my moon, my everybody's moon, Which everybody looks on and calls his, And, I suppose, is looked on by in turn, While she looks no one's very dear, no less! You smile? why, there's my picture ready made. There's what we painters call our harmony! A common grayness silvers every thing, — All in a twilight, you and I alike -You, at the point of your first pride in me (That's gone you know,) — but I, at every point; My youth, my hope, my art, being all toned down To yonder sober pleasant Fiesole. There's the bell clinking from the chapel-top; A twilight-piece. Love, we are in God's hand. How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead! So free we seem, so fettered fast we are: I feel he laid the fetter: let it lie! This chamber for example · turn your head All that's behind us! you don't understand Nor care to understand about my art, But you can hear at least when people speak; And that cartoon, the second from the door I can do with my pencil what I know, What I see, what at bottom of my heart I wish for, if I ever wish so deep – Do easily, too when I say perfectly No sketches first, no studies, that 's long past Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do, And fail in doing. I could count twenty such There burns a truer light of God in them, In their vexed, beating, stuffed and stopped-up brain, My works are nearer heaven, but I sit here. The sudden blood of these men ! at a word Praise them, it boils, or blame them, it boils too. I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame I know both what I want and what might gain Our head would have o'erlooked the world!" doubt. Yonder 's a work, now, of that famous youth No The Urbinate who died five years ago. ('Tis copied, George Vasari sent it me.) Well, I can fancy how he did it all, |