Classic Poem

The measure of morality in art
Is whether it achieves its perfect part;
Pretence in any craft is moral crime,
A Creed must reach to act in space and time.
And if there's aught immoral 'neath the sun
T is work that never should have been begun;
That uncompleted task of every man
Who toils without a clean artistic plan.
Art " morals" may be measured by the sight,
Artistic crime is never moral " right."