Brave soul, 'twere well if all the same would say, <br />And artists aim their patron's wish t'obey. <br />What signifies a wart, or e'en a scar? <br />Leave both, skilled hand, and paint us as we are. <br />The crowfeet paint, the wrinkles on the brow, <br />The hollow cheek, the form inclined to bow, <br />The tear-dim'd eye, the hair well streaked with gray, <br />The hardened hand, begrim'd with soot and clay, <br />And if you use the seer's revealing glass, <br />Remember this, ' <br />All flesh is as the grass. <br />'<br /><br />Joseph Horatio Chant<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/paint-me-as-i-am-warts-and-all/
