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There, as it were, the poet of the earth and the joy of earth replies to the Indian ascetic.

As to those readers who are not prepared to go back from the poet of to the writer of love-songs and the singer enamoured of the keen sensations of the earth, he would tell them as he did one dissatisfied soul, "Forgive me, if I too have been young!"

But in truth the more one looks into his poetry the more clearly one sees that the two poets of 1879 and of 1909 are one and the same at heart. The songs of divine love, set to Indian melody in the later book, are matched by the lyric interpretation of human love in the pages of. Love's prodigal, in this romantic interlude, only spends himself that he may break out of the circle of the lower sensation