You depicted David, long-haired, in adolescence,
tending some sheep, and comfortably barefoot:
this concept of beauty your splendid painting put
into my soul---nine years before my own pubescence.
J-9thxciv
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Author's Notes/Comments:
Recently, I have been able to acquire a copy of the children's Bible that first presented the painting to me; and I have also acquired some online versions of it. I believe my personal definition of Beauty was set by this painting. Before I was five years old, I suspected I was different (in the parlance of that time); by Autumn of 1970 (already twelve), I knew it.