. Book of the Royal blue . shrine of the beautiful—fromyour seclusion in the clouds—comedown, and see the mighty works yourkindred race has wrought; cease fromsighing oer the mouldy Past; turn awayfrom heroes that are strangers to your(leople, from gods that are not theirs: wastenot your inspirations upon idle or unworthythemes; but come, with hands of skill andhearts of fire, to glorify a Present worthyof your powers. Scorn not the profferedfriendship, but let the artist clasp handswith the artisan; let the Poet walk withthe People. Illustrate, adorn, exalt, em-bellish, that the nobler aspira
. Book of the Royal blue . shrine of the beautiful—fromyour seclusion in the clouds—comedown, and see the mighty works yourkindred race has wrought; cease fromsighing oer the mouldy Past; turn awayfrom heroes that are strangers to your(leople, from gods that are not theirs: wastenot your inspirations upon idle or unworthythemes; but come, with hands of skill andhearts of fire, to glorify a Present worthyof your powers. Scorn not the profferedfriendship, but let the artist clasp handswith the artisan; let the Poet walk withthe People. Illustrate, adorn, exalt, em-bellish, that the nobler aspirations of thehuman soul after truth, beauty, and immor-tality may be realized. Write, paint, .sketch, and chisel thatwhen ten, and thrice ten, hundred years aregone, and our fires shall be quenched, ouriron bodies heaps of rust, the noble arch-ways that have borne us over rivers andmountain gorges shall have crumbled intoruin, the stranger (perha])s a winged tourist ARTISTS EXCURSION OVER THE BALTIMORE & OHIO R. MT|i¥;i,i,fgi^a;l! From Harpers Wiignzine. By PermUsior, ot Harper &. Brothers. THF, MOliKL CONDlCTOIi. from some other sphere), finding a mossystone carved with the letters B. & 0. R. R.,may know that they stand for Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad, the grandest and mostrenowned work of its age. The engineer turned the steam cock,and the invocation comes to a sudden the light-hearted craftsmen had heardthe call, and were not backward sending intheir acceptances—right glad to lay downpencil and pallet for a season to join awhole-souled frolic; to turn from the mimiccreations on their canvas to scenes of reallife and sunshine. So, on the afternoon of the 31st ofMay, the guests began to assemble at theindicated place of rendezvous, the GilmoreHouse, in Baltimore; and then and therecommenced the thousand-and-one delightfullittle incidents which will live in manymemories as perennial fountains of refresh-ment. There were meetings and greetingsof old f
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