LXII.
1, 2.—“... winged words on which the soul would pierce
Into the height of love’s rare Universe.”
The two lines are Shelley’s, in his “Epipsychidion.”
7.—“Man’s destiny with woman’s blended be.”
“... in the long years liker must they grow;
The man be more of woman, she of man.”
—Tennyson (“The Princess,” Part VII.).
Id.—“Dans ma manière de sentir, je suis femme aux trois quarts.”
—Ernest Renan (“Souvenirs d’Enfance”).
Id....
“Das Ewigweibliche
Zieht uns hinan.”
—Goethe (concluding two lines of “Faust”).
8.—“... progression, ...”
“Unfolded out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded;
Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth, is to come the superbest man of the earth;
Unfolded out of the friendliest woman is to come the friendliest man;
Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form’d of perfect body;
Unfolded only out of the inimitable poem of the woman, can come the poems of man ...
Unfolded out of the folds of the woman’s brain come all the folds of the man’s brain, duly obedient;
Unfolded out of the justice of the woman all justice is unfolded;
Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy;
A man is a great thing upon the earth, and through eternity—but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman,
First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.”
—Walt Whitman (“Leaves of Grass”).