On The Elusive Muse
Art
Herman
Melville
In placid hours well-pleased
we dream
Of many a brave unbodied
scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life
create,
What unlike things must meet
and mate:
A flame to melt—a wind to
freeze;
Sad patience—joyous energies;
Humility—yet pride and scorn;
Instinct and study; love and
hate;
Audacity—reverence. These must
mate,
And fuse with Jacob’s mystic
heart,
To wrestle with the angel—Art
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