William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.

Beauty

THE SUN shines bright in many places,

Beauty stoops into the vault;

One Light illumines many faces,

Shows perfection through the fault.

And every mountain, sky or river

Holds one heavenly reply

To my questions, from the Giver

Of the Gift that cannot die.

Yet I destroy my purest pleasure

While I hesitate, compare.

God is the undivided Treasure …

Timeless Beauty is my share.

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