Jean Delville
Published: 2015-06-12
Total Pages: 250
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Excerpt from The New Mission of Art: A Study of Idealism in Art The Prayer of a Magician O God of Light in whom all worlds are one, An atom from that fierce and fiery place Wherein men stray, behold before Thy Face My soul, an eagle mounting to the sun. The blood-stained idols of an erring race, The clouds of evil that men's hearts have done, Roll on beneath me to that hour when none That brought to birth no beauty shall win grace. O God, Who gazing on the perfect whole Smiles at our loveliness of form soul As gradually the prisoned self escapes, Beyond all time, division, change, or death, Thou art the immortal essence of all shapes And earth of Thine eternity - a breath! Jean Delville About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.