Show STUDENT LIFE The Prior’s niece— patron saint — is it so pretty You cant discover if it means hope fear Sorrow or joy Won’t beauty go with these? blue Suppose I’ve made her eyes all right and Can’t I take breath and try to add life’s flesh And then add soul and heighten them three- 105 “That which is beautiful is harmonious and what is harmonious and proportionable proportionable is true and what is at once both beautiful and true is of consequence agreeable and good” According to Ilegel “God manifests himself in nature and in art in the form of beauty God expresses himself in two fold?” The dignity and worth of mere beauty and ways in the object and in the subject in nathe mission of this beauty in elevating the soul ture and in spirit Beauty is the shining of the idea through matter” is expressed in these lines: all at no soul In general it is conceded that beauty exists “Or say there’s beauty with both in nature and in the mind of man that (I never saw it— put the case the same) the extrinsic elements of beauty are the harIf you get simple beauty and naught else monious and the pleasurable Since our minds You get about the best thing God invents are so constructed that no two faculties have That’s somewhat and you’ll find the soul you have missed the same degree of strength and vigor it folthanks” him return when you Within yourself lows that the extrinsic elements of beauty apalso is beautifully mere The worth of beauty peal differently to each one of us while the Ithodora Emerson’s in expressed intrinsic or spiritual element exists for each pierced our solitudes “In May when and all If we do not preceive it— it is because woods in the Ithodora fresh found the I some are less highly trained than others in nook a in blooms leafless damp its Spreading the understanding and appreciation of the brook and the desert sluggish To please the beautiful Besides the extrinsic elements of in the fallen pool The purple petals beauty we also find beauty in movement and Made the black water with their beauty gay The flower is not loveliest when cut come his plumes to change There might the red-bir- d but while it is growing and developing fresh cool loveliness as it grows If we could imagine And court the flower that cheapens his array such a gem as the opal to be alive and giving Ithodora! If the sages ask thee why forth light by the movements of its molecules This charm is wasted on the earth and sky instead of flashing its colors only when meTell them dear that if eyes were made for chanically turned in the hand its beauty would seeing be trebled It is said that the strongest imThen beauty is its own excuse for being pressions we receive from Guido’s “Aurora” Why then wert there O rival of the rose! are of brilliant color and vigorous action I never thought to ask I never knew “Aurora goddess of the dawn flies thro’ the But in my simple ignorance suppose air scattering the purple clouds of night and The self same power that brought me there showering roses and dewdrops rainbow colors brought you” While we all feel and acknowledge the power and rozy clouds over the sleeping earth Her l wind into and elevating influence of beauty does not the garments are filmy blown by he moving whirls of rainbow hues that add to the question arise in our minds ‘"What is beauty?” Art has ever been defined as ‘‘such activity as feeling of motion without impeding her flight on She looks back toward Phoebus Apollo the produces beauty” Much has been said who drives the chariot of the sun this subject from the time of Socrates Plato sun-go- d and Aristotle to the present time yet no one guiding the restless steeds in their impetuous Around him are the Hours eagerly haste has arrived at a universally accepted concluhurrying on either side every figuc alive with sion as to what really constitutes the beautiful Two definitions of beauty together seem to vigorous action” Fra Lippo surely acknowledges the existence me to give a very comprehensive idea of beauty of the spiritual the harmonies and the agree- in art Shaftesbury says sea-win- ds |