occurs in his `Laus Mariae':

"But thou within thyself, dear manifold heart,
Dost bind all epochs in one dainty fact.
Oh, Sweet, my pretty sum of history,
I leapt the breadth of time in loving thee!"*5*

-- a scrap worthy to be placed beside Steele's "To love her
is a liberal education," which has often been declared
the happiest thing on the subject in the English language.

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*1* `The Symphony', ll. 232-240.
*2* `The Symphony', ll. 241-248.
*3* `My Springs', ll. 53-56.
*4* `Acknowledgment', ll. 41-42.
*5* `Laus Mariae', ll. 11-14.
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To Lanier there was but one thing that made life worth living,
and that was love. Even the superficial reader must be struck
with the frequent use of the term in the poet's works,
while all must be uplifted by his conception of its purpose and power.
The ills of agnosticism, mercantilism, and intolerance
all find their solution here and here only, as is admirably set forth
in `The Symphony', of which the opening strain is, "We are all for love,"
and the closing, "Love alone can do." The matter is no less happily put
in `Tiger-lilies': "For I am quite confident that love is the only rope
thrown out by Heaven to us who have fallen overboard into life.
Love for man, love for woman, love for God, -- these three chime