Florence Earle Coates,
Lyrics of Life — Beauty's Path
(1909)
“ Beauty, transcending all that bans and bars, Moves as the light moves on, eternal as the stars! Too well acquaint with passions that benumb, Earth is with them no more in kind accord. 'T is only by ascending one may come Where waits for her the new, the unexplored. She longs—ah, how she longs!—to break asunder Her ancient chains, to lave in morning dew, To stand a little space 'mid realms of wonder, To feel her nearness to the good and true. She longs for beauty—vernal through the years— To touch the dried-up spring and fount of happy tears! ”
