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TITIAN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY

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First Line: WOULD THAT SUCH HILLS AND CITIES ROUND US SANG
Last Line: TO COLORS FAIRER FAR, AND GLORIES HIGHER.
Subject(s): TITIAN (1490-1576); VECELLI, TIZIANO; VECELLIO, TIZIANO;
Would that such hills and cities round us sang,
Such vistas of the actual earth and man
As kindled Titian when his life began;
Would that this latter Greek could put his gold,
Wisdom and splendor in our brushes bold
Till Greece and Venice, children of the sun,
Become our every-day, and we aspire
To colors fairer far, and glories higher.






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