General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems/Titian

by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

TITIAN

WOULD that such hills and cities round us
    sang,
Such vistas of the actual earth and man
As kindled Titian when his life began;
Would that this latter Greek could put his gold,
Wisdom and splendor in our brushes bold
Till Greece and Venice, children of the sun,
Become our every-day, and we aspire
To colors fairer far, and glories higher.