B.C. Polyclitus and Praxiteles

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“Thou art a man, God is no more,

Learn thy own Humanity to adore.”

~ William Blake

The Greeks were onto it before the Christ

Appeared.  You only have to look at stone

Perfection, nose, to see He tried to heist

The truth Praxiteles’s tools had shown

Divinely.  Further revelation fails

To teach us more than what a shoulder shows

In Athens.  Further revelation quails

Before quintessence.  Utter beauty glows

As if the chisel opened up the shape,

Ideal the form, allowing light to fade

All other teaching into banished rape.

We only need to see those curls with shade.

  Forget the later god upon the wood

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    Of Crosses.  Marble shows the better good.

~ Phillip Whidden