The Love of the Beautiful

Anna Cora Mowatt (1819–1870)

"The bright mosaics that with storied beautyThe floor of Nature's temple tesselate"—

———"thus was Beauty sent from heaven,The lovely ministress of Truth and GoodIn this dark world; for Truth and Good are one,And Beauty dwells in them, and they in her,With like participation. Wherefore, then,O sons of earth! would ye dissolve the tie?"