| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | VI. Art | | By Sir John Hanmer (1809–1881) |
| | | AS o’er the sea’s deep world-sustaining breast, | |
| Climbing the steep horizon, onward bear | |
| The thought-winged ships, and each his track more fair | |
| Believes, for ’t is his own, than all the rest; | |
| Which not the less doth fade, as ’t is imprest; | 5 |
| And the great waters, and cloud-traversed air, | |
| With their enduring might, are only there, | |
| And space of days unmeasured, east and west: | |
| Dread realms of Art, illimitable as ocean, | |
| So fares man’s spirit o’er your region waves, | 10 |
| Proudly and lonely, with a choral motion; | |
| Sunshine he courts, but tempests too he braves; | |
| Seeking the port, where, for their heart’s devotion, | |
| Fame lights her star over such seamen’s graves. | | | | |
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