English poem
A Stage-Figure.
by Margaret Steele Anderson (1867–1921)
(A painting by Whistler.) A thing of flesh and blood? Not so! Yet what you are I do not know. A paper sword? A pasteboard flame? Ah no, I cannot find the name! Whate'er you are, 'tis not of earth, Nor did high Heaven give you birth; A marionette your mother? Well But you were sired by Ariel!