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Valasquez tried to picture Antique themes
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A Restful beauty mellowed Corot's brush
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The Painters may pursue a clearer line
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The Colour tones that Rousseau loved so well
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The Subject-matter moulds the writer's pen
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The Louvre has never welcomed Michel's art
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Tho' Claude selected as no master would
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Paul Delaroche essayed the murky Past
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Yet, ere we wander where the Salons wait
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Ingrès ne'er faltered in his ancient aim
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