We know that kindred moves to friendship, by fixed laws.
But him, who judges by the light of God’s own truth,
Effect and cause no longer hold a slave, forsooth.
When love for God is lighted in the human heart,
It fiercely burns; it suffers not effect’s dull smart.395
No sign of love does it require to seek for, there;
For love is love’s own sign, giv’n from the highest sphere.
Details there are, far more, to make this theme complete.
If wished for, each can find them. They’re not obsolete.
Sense must be gathered from material, outward form;