XLIV

I find it in the fact that each soul, just as weak

Its own way as its fellow,—departure from design

As flagrant in the flesh,—goes striving to combine

With what shall right the wrong, the under or above

The standard: supplement unloveliness by love.

—Ask Plato else! And this corroborates the sage,

That Art,—which I may style the love of loving, rage

Of knowing, seeing, feeling the absolute truth of things

For truth's sake, whole and sole, not any good, truth brings