Fragment on Painters

There is an evil which that Race attaints

Who represent God's World with oily paints,

Who mock the Universe, so rare and sweet,

With spots of colour on a canvas sheet,

Defile the Lovely and insult the Good

By scrawling upon little bits of wood.

They'd snare the moon, and catch the immortal sun

With madder brown and pale vermilion,

Entrap an English evening's magic hush . . .

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