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' As compressed within the bounded shell
' Our
Boundless Ocean seems to surge and swell,
Haunting echoes of an infinite whole
Moan and murmur through Man's finite soul."-
Mathilde Blind.
" In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation,
silence and speech acting together, some embodiment
and revelation of the infinite, made to blend itself with
the finite, to stand visible and, as it were, attainable
there."
—
Thomas Carlyle.
"Then knew I that he had given me the symbols of
the four quarters of the earth, and of all the worlds of
the universe ; the stone for the North, the sword for
the East, the spear for the South, and the cup for the
West."— Fiona Macleod.
spirits have climbed high,
» * * * *
And from the top of sense, looked over sense
To the significance and heart of things
—
Rather than things themselves."—
Elizabeth B. Browning.