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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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