I don’t know why I think it strange
Intelligence can be detected in design,
And yet one does not think of the desire to arrange
Foliage and birds and abstract shape, in line
(And then to make such subjects interlink)
As based on the ability to think.
One feels that artists’ skill in placing right,
Such shapes are pleasing to our sight
As separate from normal intellect,
And yet we pride ourselves on being able to detect
Superior beauty when we spot it, as we scroll,
Through fabric draped or hung or on the roll,
And surely it’s our intellect we prize
When hunting with our image hungry eyes,
And stop and there amongst the dross we find
The product of a clever human mind.
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