Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

It is not for me to suspect but to detect.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty