| Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917. | | | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | | By Lloyd Mifflin |
| | | IMMURMUROUS Hall, with aisles of grateful shade, | |
| Hushed refuge from the tumult of the street, | |
| Be thou my Fane, with sculptured gods replete, | |
| Mine altar dim—my sanctuary glade! | |
| With genius rare on every side displayed, | 5 |
| Dearer thou art than dreams of waving wheat | |
| In dales of vanished Youth!—O rich retreat | |
| Throbbing with garnered shapes that never fade! | |
| The deathless dead are round me. In these rooms | |
| Glow the achieved summits of mankind: | 10 |
| The marbles breathe: the color flames and glooms— | |
| Immortal Beauty by the soul divined; | |
| Inviolate here, the pure Ideal blooms, | |
| The flower of man’s creative, God-like mind! | | | | |
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