Emblems of Love

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HYMN TO LOVE 3

PART I DISCOVERY AND PROPHECY PRELUDE 7 VASHTI 16

PART II IMPERFECTION THREE GIRLS IN LOVE: MARY: A LEGEND OF THE '45 77 JEAN 94 KATRINA 109

PART III VIRGINITY AND PERFECTION JUDITH 127 THE ETERNAL WEDDING 188

MARRIAGE SONG 200 EPILOGUE: DEDICATION 209

HYMN TO LOVE

We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee,
As thóu, Lóve, were the déep thóught
And we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we,
Thy fires of thought out-spoken:

But burn'd not through us thy imagining
Like fiérce móod in a sóng cáught,
We were as clamour'd words a fool may fling,
Loose words, of meaning broken.