THE BODY WITHIN THE BODY

things. Looking deeper, and seeing clearly, he announces :

Than somehow, undemeath it ail,

I seem to see that the strands of affection and love,

Auroral, shooting from one to another — so tender, se tnie and life-long.

And longer than life — holding together the présent and past générations ;

The currents of love and thought streaming in the watches of the night from far and near, from one to another,

(Streaming ail the more powerfully for the very hindrances and disasters which arrive or threaten,)

Ând building in the bustle of the day such likeness of their dreams as may be, —

That thèse inner are after élL more real in ëome sensé than the outer things — that they surpass in actual vitality and signiûcance even ail this artillery of horrors.

I dream that thèse are the fibres and nerves of a body that lies within the outer body of society,

A network, an innumerable vast interlocked ramification, slowly being built up — ail dear lovers and friends, ail families, groupe, ail peoples, nations, ail times, ail worlds perhaps —

Of which the outer similitudes and shells, like the minute cells of an organism, are shed and die in endless multitudes with continuai decay and corruption ;

But the real individuals persist and are members of a Body, archetypal, eteme,

Glorious, titie centre and perfection of life and organization.

And the source of ail the Light in the universe.^

Evangel indeed I It announces that the varied and manifold " good work " done-here and there