







through which it advances to a strength 

 which is full of repose. The bursting of 

 the calyx announces the flower; but the 

 beauty of the perfect blossoming obliterated 

 the very memory of its earlier growth. 

 The climb upward is often a long anguish, 

 but the dust and weariness are forgotten 

 when once the eye rests on the vast outlook. 

 " On every height their lies repose " is the 

 sublime declaration of one who had looked 

 into most things deeper than his fellows, 

 and had learned much of the profounder 

 processes of life. Emerson long ago noted 

 that even in action the forms of the Greek 

 heroes are always in repose; the crudity 

 of passion, the distorting agony of half- 

 mastered purpose, are lost in a self-forget- 

 fulness which borrows from Olympus 

 something of the repose of the gods. The 

 sublime calm which imparts to great works 

 of art a hint of eternity is born of complete 

 mastery of life ; all the stages of evolution 

 have been accomplished, the whole move- 

 ment of growth has been fulfilled, before 

 the hand of art sets the seal of perfection 

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