Not aiming here nor there, but everywhere

To make the most of all God meant them for.

And things there are that art can do for man

To make him manlier. Not the senseless rock

Is all it fashions into forms of sense;

But senseless manhood, natures hard and harsh,

Great classes crush’d, and races driven to crawl

Till all their souls are stain’d with smut and soil,—

More human seem these when the hands of art

Have grasp’d their better traits and hold them forth.