We and Bice hear the loss forever.

VIII

What of Rafael's sonnets, Dante's picture?

This: no artist lives and loves, that longs not

Once, and only once, and for one only,

(Ah, the prize!) to find his love a language

Fit and fair and simple and sufficient—

Using nature that 's an art to others,

Not, this one time, art that 's turned his nature.

Ay, of all the artists living, loving,