Ours Is Singleness Of Sight . . .

Ours is singleness of sight, conscious of a main current

Related to the past, seeing into the future

We are not of this present time, but extend forward and back:

Youth has clear eyes fearing nothing, going forward

With what we have to say

Expressing things as we see them we are new evidence

Fresh and young, filled with the progress of the new

Where our un-work is the spirit of youth which only is

Growing because we settle not, nor accept.

We are part of the most beautiful life possible

Obtained only through the sacrifice of many common

But overestimated things

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                  (Adapted, from page 204, The Art Spirit, Robert Henri, (1865 – 1929) )