ARTIST AND MAN.

Take thy life better than thy work. Too oft

Our artists spend their skill in rounding soft

Fair curves upon their statues, while the rough

And ragged edges of the unhewn stuff

In their own natures startle and offend

The eye of critic and the heart of friend.

If in thy too brief day thou must neglect

Thy labor or thy life, let men detect

Flaws in thy work! while their most searching gaze

Can fall on nothing which they may not praise

In thy well chiseled character. The Man

Should not be shadowed by the Artisan!