Gaze like my very life's-stuff, marble—marbly

Even to the silence! Why, before I found

The real flesh Phene, I inured myself

To see, throughout all nature, varied stuff

For better nature's birth by means of art:

With me, each substance tended to one form

Of beauty—to the human archetype.

On every side occurred suggestive germs

Of that—the tree, the flower—or take the fruit,—

Some rosy shape, continuing the peach,