Thomas William Parsons

“ Though never a Ruskin had schooled them
⁠On grace and its rules and its ways—
And the perfect ear of Praxiteles
⁠Woke a Dorian poet's praise.
Art needs the poet and critic—
⁠To make men understand ”

“ Himself in marble and in brass;
Yet his best monument did raise,
Not in those perishable things
That men eternal deem,--
The pride of palaces and kings,--
But in such works as must avail him there,
With Him who, from the extreme
Love that was in his breast,
Said, "Come, all ye that heavy burdens bear,
And I will give you rest!"
This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”