Art Quest
Do you recognize yourself
in the following:
An old painting hangs on the wall.A religious subject.
A friend has the same picture and says,
"I'd love to know the title or the artist."
You take on the search with delight.
You check out images
on the Internet and
find some information --
but you want the entire
story. Your research
takes the full afternoon.
(But that's OK. This is
the longest day in the
Northern Hemisphere;
this is the Summer Solstice.)
You've exhausted the computer source.
You turn to your own bookshelf and take down
The Norton Anthology of Poetry (First Edition
1970) from your college days.
Inspiration often arrives just from "sipping" a page
here and there.
Suddenly, you come across "Fra Lippo Lippi"
a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning.
Yes! In the words of Browning's Fra Lippi
your business is
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