Quote#Beauty
Upward my face I turn to you
Quote byRobert Williams Buchanan · 1841–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Undertones (1883), "To David in Heaven", St. 10..
English (original)
Upward my face I turn to you, I long for you, I yearn to you, The spectral vision trances me to utt'rance wild and weak; It is not that I mourn you, To mourn you were to scorn you, For you are one step nearer to the beauty singers seek. But I want, and cannot see you, I seek and cannot find you, And, see! I touch the book of songs you tenderly left behind you!
— Robert Williams Buchanan
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Even on the white English crags A few strong spirits, in a race that binds Its body in chains and calls them Liberty, And calls each fresh link Progress, stood erect With faces pale that hunger'd to the light.
I saw the starry Tree Eternity Put forth the blossom Time.
Full of a sweet indifference.
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Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.