I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.