George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
Ars Poetica et HumanaJohn Albee (1833–1915)
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That even poesy
Hath rights like thine and mine?
Dost thou its harmonies
Observe, and how there lies
Along the builded line
The touch, the frequent ties
The muses love to twine?
The loving words must blend
In ’cording rhymes, and kiss,
Their meaning not to miss,
Ere they onward flow
Some other mood to show.
So do our hearts rehearse,
In earnest or in play,
The self-same pulse-like verse,
And lips seal what lips say.