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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

The Joys of Art

Rachel Annand Taylor (1876–1960)

AS a dancer dancing in a shower of roses before her King

(A dreamer dark, the King)

Throws back her head like a wind-loved flower, and makes her cymbals ring

(O’er her lit eyes they ring);

As a fair white dancer strange of heart, and crown’d and shod with gold,

My soul exults before the Art, the magian Art of old.