The sculptor learns to see and trace
Beneath the accidents of mood
The salient character of face,
The underlying certitude,
And fashions for essential norm
A bold integrity of form.
The engineer and architect
Conform the slant of every line
To poised proportion and reject,
As opposite to their design,
The vagrancy of every flaw
Which thwarts the unity of law.
The trained astronomer can test
With his analyses of light
What elements are manifest
In farthest areas of night,
Till stellar substances are caught
In grasp of his computing thought.
