Sir John Collings Squire

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    Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
    Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
    —Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)

    And as the sun above the light doth bring,
    Though we behold it in the air below,
    So from th’ eternal Light the soul doth spring,
    Though in the body she her powers do show.
    Sir John Davies (1569–1626)

    Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
    Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
    Or good, or bad,—disfigur’d, or deprav’d,—
    All art, is at its resurrection sav’d;
    All crown’d with glory in the critic’s heav’n,
    Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.
    Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
    Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
    —Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)

    There now are no Squire Westerns as of old;
    And our Sophias are not so emphatic,
    But fair as then, or fairer to behold.
    We have no accomplish’d blackguards, like Tom Jones,
    But gentlemen in stays, as stiff as stones.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)