Page:Pacchiarotto and how he worked in distemper; with other poems - Browning (1876).djvu/228

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
216
FILIPPO BALDINUCCI
Has altogether changed my views
Concerning Art! Blind prejudice!
Well may you Christians tax us Jews
With scrupulosity too nice!

49.
"' For, don't I see,—let's issue join!
Whenever I'm allowed pollute
(I—and my little bag of coin)
Some Christian palace of repute,—
Don't I see stuck up everywhere
Abundant proof that cultured taste
Has Beauty for its only care,
And upon Truth no thought to waste?