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    Lord Thomas was buried in the church,
    Fair Ellinor in the choir;
    And out from her bosom there grew a red rose
    And out of Lord Thomas a briar.
    —Unknown. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (l. 77–80)

    But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,—which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)