Black Arts, Madonna, and cold-blooded, too.

O, sheer mechanical, playing upon your mind

And senses, as they too were instruments,

Or colours to be ground and mixed and used

For purposes that were not yours at all,

Until the living Power that uses me

Breathes on this fabric, also made by hands,

The inscrutable face that smiles all arts away.

How many tales I have told you sitting here

To make you see, according to my need,