TURN buck the picture to the wall
That gazes from the easel thus!
The hand that drew is dead, and all
Is ended, now, for all of us.
Oh, not his life alone, but mine
Goes down into his grave to-day,
As, failing of the touch divine,
My very portrait fades away.
You look askance — My portrait?
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