An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Robert Browning
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Wanting is -- What? "Love, the soul of soul, within the soul", the Christ-spirit, the spirit of the "Comer" (o` e'rxo/menos, Matt. 11:3), completes incompletion, reanimates that which without it is dead, and admits to a fellowship with the soul of things; `Ubi caritas, ibi claritas'. See passage from `Fifine at the Fair', quoted under `My Star'. My Star. The following passage from `Fifine at the Fair', section 55, is an expansion of the idea involved in `My Star', and is the best commentary which can be given on it: -- "I search but cannot see What purpose serves the soul that strives, or world it tries |
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