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358 CRITICAL STUDIES And Adam knew the sign : And started from his couch : And Eve was there divine, Her blessing to avouch : And in the bower of Eden They wed the earth with sky, And marriage so was laden With loves' eternity. " And she shall have her rights, Born new from age to age : And she shall miss her plights, And she shall fire the sage, And blood and bone is man, That wars for woman's side : And in Redemption's Plan She is Redemption's Bride." The " Horse of Flesh," p. 34, is thus introduced : — " This night the song that doth belong, Is state of man, when he doth plan To sing for pride, and high to ride." I quote a portion of it, as his own vindication for departing from the ordinary process of poetic com- position : — " The globe of poets then, The choir of angel-men, Each sing a different song, That doth to each belong. Yet the songs one and all, Are of a single call. And make one body free, Doth with itself agree. Then in society. Rises an anthem high, 'Tis as a perfume cast From all flowers far and fast ;