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 example, says that "love is enough," it is obvious that he asserts in those words that art, science, politics, ambition, money, houses, carriages, concerts, gloves, walking-sticks, door-knockers, railway-stations, cathedrals, and any other things one may choose to tabulate are unnecessary. When Omar Khayyam says:

A book of verses underneath the bough, A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness— O wilderness were Paradise enow."

It is clear that he speaks fully as much ascetically as he does æsthetically. He makes a list of things and says that he wants no more. The same thing was done by a mediæval monk. Examples might, of course, be multiplied a hundred-fold. One of the most genuinely poetical of our younger poets says, as the one thing certain, that

From quiet home and first beginning Out to the undiscovered ends— There's nothing worth the wear of winning But laughter and the love of friends."

Here we have a perfect example of the main important