To build, to add sheer beauty to the earth,
To paint the foreground to the eternal sky,
Meet to reflect its silent majesty,
These are your tasks, O builder — labours worth
The tedium of toil; think, to give birth
To pillars, domes, all that rejoice the eye
Adding fresh lustre to Eternity !
Your task it is thus to allay the dearth
Of cultured beauty in a barren land
In which but for the builder’s skilful care,
Naught but foul swamp and tangled growth would stand,
In place of all these sculptured works so fair,
That spread their beauty forth on every hand,
And with their man-hewn members clasp the air’
(R S Ward)
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