:00:30
The love god?
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And let's not forget
the inspiring words of the poet:
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"Oh, beautiful
for spacious skies,
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"For amber waves of grain,
:00:55
"For purple mountain majesty,
:00:58
Above the fruited plain. "
:01:00
But I say, all the beauty
of our glorious country...
:01:04
is meaningless if its artistic
soul is to be stifled...
:01:08
by narrow-minded
and antiquated laws.
:01:11
Is it any wonder this country
has never produced...
:01:14
a Michelangelo, a Rembrandt,
a Picasso...
:01:16
when men like Osborn Tremain
are persecuted...
:01:19
for trying to bring beauty and
art to a culture-hungry public.
:01:23
Is it any wonder that the rest
of the artistic world...
:01:26
considers our country
a cultural desert,
:01:29
when true lovers of art,
like Osborn Tremain,
:01:32
are crucified on the
cross of ignorance?
:01:36
Is Osborn Tremain
to be martyred...
:01:38
for being a worshiper
at the shrine of beauty...
:01:42
and, through his
artistic publications,
:01:44
sharing this love
with a culture-starved public?
:01:48
How long is God-given beauty
to be strangled...
:01:52
by man-made laws?
:01:55
The spirits of the great poets of
antiquity stand next to Osborn Tremain,
:01:59
crying in his defense: "A thing
of beauty is a joy forever."