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Chapter 10
Wanting is—What?
V. Arguments of the Poems.
* It has not been thought necessary, in these Arguments, to
use quotation marks wherever expressions from the poems are
incorporated; and especially where they are adapted in
construction to the place where they are introduced.
“Love, the soul of soul, within the soul”, the Christ-spirit, the spirit of the “Comer” (o’ e’rxo/menos, Matt. 11:3), completes incompletion, reanimates that which without it is dead, and admits to a fellowship with the soul of things; ‘Ubi caritas, ibi claritas’. See passage from ‘Fifine at the Fair’, quoted under ‘My Star’.