The knower, seer, feeler, beside,—instinctive Art
Must fumble for the whole, once fixing on a part
However poor, surpass the fragment, and aspire
To reconstruct thereby the ultimate entire.
Art, working with a will, discards the superflux,
Contributes to defect, toils on till,—fiat lux,—
There 's the restored, the prime, the individual type!
XLV
Look, for example now! This piece of broken pipe
(Some shipman's solace erst) shall act as crayon; and