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Celadon:

The outcome of an order'd energy,
Contrast and correspondence.


Yves:

Symmetry,
Variety, or regularity.


Sophron:

You seem but ill-agreéd, and I affirm
That art of Sculptor, Painter, Poet, Bard
Is Charm and Pleasure, never Strength and Life.
Truth is the only living Beauty. You
Who prate of Very Beauty Visible,
You seemat least to us Philosophers
Most like to children playing on the shore
To one who has explor'd the middle sea,
The sunless depth where groves unearthly wave,
Of giant weed and growth unfathomable.
Who, safe escap'd the dreadful Remora