And strike from the old stone the old restorative.

'Which is?' why, go and ask our grandames how they used

To dance around it, till the Curé disabused

10 Their ignorance, and bade the parish in a band

Lay flat the obtrusive thing that cumbered so the land!

And there, accordingly, in bush and briar it - 'bides

'Its time to rise again!' (so somebody derides,

That's pert from Paris) 'since, yon spire, you keep erect

'Yonder, and pray beneath, is nothing, I suspect,

'But just the symbol's self, expressed in
slate for rock,

'Art's smooth for Nature's rough, new
chip from the old block!"
There, sir, my say is said! Thanks, and
Saint Gille increase

The wealth bestowed so well!"
with he pockets piece,

-whereI leave

so Doffs cap, and takes the road. in Learning's clutch More money for his book, but scarcely gain as much.

So, out of that one word, each variant rose and fell

And left the same "All's change, but permanence as well."

- Grave note whence list aloft! harmonics sound, that mean: "Truth inside, and outside, truth also; and between

Each, falsehood that is change, as truth is permanence.

The individual soul works through the shows of sense,

(Which, ever proving false, still promise
to be true)

Up to an outer soul as individual too;
And, through the fleeting, lives to die into
the fixed,

And reach at length 'God, man, or both 50 together mixed,'

Transparent through the flesh, by parts which prove a whole,

By hints which make the soul discernible by soul

Let only soul look up, not down, not hate but love,

As truth successively takes shape, one grade above

Its last presentment, tempts as it were truth indeed

Revealed this time; so tempts, till we attain to read

The signs aright, and learn, by failure, truth is forced

Redounded to the praise of man, was victory

Man's nature had both right to get, and might to gain,

And by no means implied submission to the reign

Of other quite as real a nature, that saw fit To have its way with man, not man his way with it.

This time, acknowledgment and acquiescence quell

Their contrary in man; promotion proves 54 as well

Defeat: and Truth, unlike the False with
Truth's outside,

Neither plumes up his will nor puffs him
out with pride.

I fancy, there must lurk some cogency i' the claim,

Man, such abatement made, submits to, all the same.

Soul finds no triumph, here, to register like Sense

And as with the last essence so with its first faint type.

In constancy means raw, 'tis faith alone means ripe.

I' the soul which runs its round: no matter how it range

20 From Helen to Fifine, Elvire bids back the change

To permanence. Here, too, love ends where love began.

Such ending looks like law, because the natural man

Inclines the other way, feels lordlier free than bound.

Poor pabulum for pride when the first love is found

Last also! and, so far from realising gain,
Each step aside just proves divergency in
vain.

The wanderer brings home no profit from
his quest
Beyond the sad surmise that keeping house
were best

Could life begin anew. His problem
posed aright

30 Was

-"From the given point evolve the infinite!"

Not "Spend thyself in space, endeavouring to joint

CXXXI.

Our double horoscope concur. Discard that

the fickle element! Elvire is land not

Made prize of long ago, picked haply where the swell

Menaced a little once- or seaweedbranch that yet

Dampens and softens, notes a freak of wind, a fret

Of wave: though, why on earth should sea-change mend or mar

The calm contemplative householders that we are?

So shall the seasons fleet, while our two selves abide:

E'en past astonishment how sunrise and springtide

Could tempt one forth to swim; the more if time appoints

That swimming grow a task for one's rheumatic joints.

10 Such honest civic house, behold, I con

stitute

arouse!