Wisdom is theirs; they live for us and grow,

Like things ambrosial, fairer than the freaks

Of signs and seasons which the poets know,

Or fires of sunset on the mountain-peaks.


VIII.
SPIRIT LOVE.

How great my joy! How grand my recompense!

I bow to thee; I keep thee in my sight.

I call thee mine, in love though not in sense

I share with thee the hermitage immense