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Life and Art - Framed Verse
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- George Gray Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- February 19, 1929
- Accession Number
- 2017-16
- Storage Location
- M1 S2 Sh4 B7 F1 2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- George Gray Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2017-16
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M1 S2 Sh4 B7 F1 2
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- February 19, 1929
- Series
- George Gray Collection - St. Thomas Collegiate Institute Series
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- One framed handwritten poem verse that reads:
Life and Art
Said life to art: I love thee best-
Not when I find in thee
My very face and form expressed
with dull fidelity
But when in thee my craving eyes
Behold continually
The mystery of my memories
and all I care to be
Charles G. D. Robers
From the Vagrant of Tenir
Great fortune in my wayfaring
I stumble on, more oft than not,—
Grip comrade hands in hall or camp,
Greet ardent lips in court or cot.
Charles G. D. Roberts
Transcribed for the St. Thomas Collegiate Institute Library, February 19, 2019
- Name Access
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- St. Thomas Collegiate Institute
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