What hath my wonder at the artist’s work
In common with my faith in spirit-sight?
Maria:
One can indeed admire a work, e’en when
One hath no faith in that which is its source;
Yet in this case there would be naught to rouse
Our admiration, had this artist not
Trodden the path that led to spirit-life.
Strader:
Yet still we must not say that whosoe’er