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HIGH
LIGHTS
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KANSAS CITY
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Illustrated Poems
about the
Places We Love |
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GALLERY OF ART |
The sun,
remembering,
lays hold
Of such artistry
with finger-tips
of gold.
The moon her
olden silver
wing
Spreads above
this monumental
thing.
The stars look
down in mass
astonishment
At William
Rockhill
Nelson's
accomplishment.
And man sees
works within
these portals
Commemorating
these immortals.
Now, let the
world look to
its laurels of
art,
Here is a frozen
dream of majesty
In America's
heart.
--John Milton
Smither. |
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NELSON GALLERY
AT NIGHT |
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This building,
holding beauty,
is itself
A greater
beauty, an
immortal song,
A sonnet made in
stone, a steady
light
For ages yet to
come.
Here is our
midland heart --
the tangible
Full blossom of
its dreams, a
bloom both fair
And lasting as
these very doors
of bronze.
O lost of soul
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bewildered ones
and sad,
Here stands the
past, but here
the future, too,
Grows yet
undreamed-of
wings!
--Virginia Scott
Miner. |
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NEW GALLERY WING |
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We see the art
of China,
ancient land,
We gaze at it
and try to
understand.
We stroll
through rooms of
beauty, mystic,
rare;
A bas-relief of
queen and court
so fair,
Serene in draped
and sweeping
silken sheen:
Such
graciousness,
refinement in
their mein
Reflects an
ordered life and
thought anew,
For even in the
year five
twenty-two,
Long ages of
past culture
molded well
This regal group
whose characters
compel.
--Kate Strong. |
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HIGH
LIGHTS
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KANSAS CITY
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Illustrated Poems
about the
Places We Love |
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Copyright 1945 by Mrs. G. L.
Fullington. |
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