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EVE DOWNER CHUBB,

with thoughts of

The many pleasant hours we spent together

Years ago

In the art galleries of Europe.

"If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents;

you've seen the world

-The beauty and the wonder and the power,
The shapes of things, their colors, lights and shades,
Changes, surprises and God made it all!

For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love
First when we see them painted, things we have passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;

And so they are better, painted - better to us

Which is the same thing. Art was given for that."

Browning in Fra Lippo Lippi.