ENWERI. BODY AND SOUL.
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Omar Khayyam, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Jami, and FitzGerald, Edward
“A painter in China once painted a hall;— Such a web never hung on an emperor’s wall;— One half from his brush with rich colours did run, The other he touched with a beam of the sun; So that all which delighted the eye in one side, The same, point to point, in the other replied.
“In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found; Thine the star-pointing roof, and the base on the ground: Is one half depicted with colours less bright? Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!”