Lines on "The Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus"


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Lines on "The Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus" (1915)
by John Ellingwood Donnell Trask

Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

As rendered in Palace of Fine Arts and Lagoon: Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915.

967776Lines on "The Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus" — Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition.1915

Click here for a postcard of the statue from the Exhibition.

A little time, a little space away
Noise and tumultuous color and the world at play!


Here 'neath the drooping branch, the low-bent marble Muse;
On either hand the master-builder's columns tall;
The little lake caressed by cloud and sky;
The quiet of the dying daylight over all!


Man praises man's accomplishment with brazen throat;
Beauty alone can charm with one low note.

John E. D. Trask