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L'ENVOI
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and
dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has
died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an ]aeon
or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
And those that were good shall be happy: they shall sit
in a golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets'
hair;
They shall find real saints to draw from -- Magdalene, Peter, and
Paul;
They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all!
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They
Are!
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