Credo of the Artist

The skies I worship do not stoop to take me;
The songs I sing go forth^__but echo never;
My high resolve with mean results forsake me;

And still I sing, and worship, and endeavor.

^__Kate Stephens

Contemporary Kansas Poetry
Helen Rhoda Hoopes
Page 111
(Kansas City: Joseph D. Havens Company. 1927)

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