Edward H. Barringer

MODERN PAINTERS.

VOLUME I.

If, having walked with Nature,
And offered, far as frailty would allow,
My heart a daily sacrifice to Truth,

I now affirm of Nature and of Truth,

Whom I have served, that their Divinity
Revolts, offended at the ways of men,
Philosophers, who, though the human soul

Be of a thousand faculties composed,
And twice ten thousand interests, do yet prize
This soul, and the transcendent universe,
No more than as a mirror that reflects
To proud Self-love her own intelligence."

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE.

1873.

[THE AUTHOR RESERVES THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION.]