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Title: Art And Heart Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox [More Titles by Wilcox] Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover, Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in Heaven will mind it, Though perfect the player's touch, little, if any, he sways us, Though the poet may spend his life in skilfully rounding a measure, So it is not the speech which tells, but the impulse which goes with the saying; It is not the artist's skill which into our soul comes stealing And it is not the poet's song, though sweeter than sweet bells chiming, And therefore I say again, though I am art's own true lover, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |