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 S6 v.. THE' BOILING-POINT OF LOVE-HEAT.

You smile in simple upturned flower-faces With honest yellow sunlight aureoles! The curlews crying on the windy moors The glad larks' singing in the blue have souls Star-clear as yours ! I find you best, I think, beside the sea, It breathes your very spirit— fresh and clean. Yet full of breath and light and mystery Deepness on deepness, hidden and unseen ! In the untramell'd tide you are expressed So well and warmly ! Sea and sky between I find you best." Do these differ from the following (in my rendering) by Tagore ? "E'er and oft do Thy melodies vibrate Deep in the grove of mine innermost being ; Ever and oft is Thy throne resplendent Wide on my beauteous lotus of heart. By the odours of Thine avalon charm' d Does my soul sojourn in this lovely earth ; Ever and oft with the dusts of Thy feet Do I deck my limbs for garment's sake. The skies throughout do I find unobscur'd The ruling presence of Thy silent smile ; Ever and oft do all vanities mine Before Thy glories recoil guilty 'sham'd. Discords vanish at Thy propitious call,

Through Thy music comes grace o'er heart and all." How, again, does the mysticism of the neo-Platonist Plotinus of the third century A.D. differ from that of the Chinese Taoists or Hindu Vedantists ? " The spiritual ambition of Plotinus was not to be satisfied," says Webb