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It follows that that imagery which keeps close to universal phases of nature, to pursuits always necessary in human life, and to ineradicable beliefs in respect to the supernatural, is most permanent as a language; and here art in its most immortal creations returns again to its omnipresent character as a thing of the common lot. The transience of the contents of art may be of two kinds.
It is the same sense of the transience of beauty that inspired the "Ode to a Grecian Urn" on which pastoral beauty was fixed in eternal rapture: Ah, happy, happy boughs I that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu. And there we touch the paradox of this strange life. We would keep the fleeting beauty of Nature, and yet we would not keep it.
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