And court the flower that cheapens his array.

Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why

This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 10

Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing,

Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:

Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!

I never thought to ask, I never knew;

But, in my simple ignorance, suppose

The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.