(_d_) The search for sensuous and for intellectual satisfaction having alike failed, is there no refuge for him whose lot is earth in its fulness? Yes, there is _Love_, Love which we saw the soliloquist of _Christmas Eve_ recognizing as the "sole good of life on earth." So now the wearied soul recalls to mind, in the past, How love repaired all ill, Cured wrong, soothed grief, made earth amends With parents, brothers, children, friends. (ll. 938-940.) Hence the appeal for "leave to love only," made in full confidence of the divine approval. In place of approval, however, falls the reproof of Section XXX: the warning that all now left to the petitioner is "the show of love," since love itself has passed with the judgment. The "semblance of a woman," "departed love," "old memories," now alone survive of that which might have been all in all to the soul during its life's struggle. And here we find the man who has failed through a too exclusive devotion to things temporal taught, by this vision of the final judgment, the truth, at first accepted in _Christmas Eve_ by the man who had looked through Nature to the God of Nature, and refused to worship in the "narrow shrines" of the temples made with hands. That love Shall arise, made perfect, from death's repose of it. And I shall behold thee, face to face, O God, and in thy light retrace How in all I loved here, still wast thou![68] Thus the voice of judgment before the Easter dawn-- All thou dost enumerate Of power and beauty in the world, The mightiness of love was curled Inextricably round about. Love lay within it and without, To clasp thee. (ll. 960-965.) But we saw the soliloquist of _Christmas Eve_ ultimately rejecting this universal recognition of love in favour of the narrow shrine of Zion Chapel: acting, as he believed, with the divine approval. Again proof of the dramatic character of the poems. The lesson of life is variously interpreted by its different students. Yet even here, where love is at length sought as the supreme good, the Voice of _Easter Day_ proclaims once more--failure--and its cause, the inability to recognize the divine Love: the object of search is even now but human love. Some semblance of a woman yet, With eyes to help me to forget, Shall look on me. (ll. 941-943.) The love of "parents, brothers, children, friends": the seeker has stopped short of Pippa's final decision,[69] "Best love of all is God's." Why has he failed to realize this until Time has passed? Why, but because, with Cleon, he deemed it "a doctrine to be held by no sane man," that divine Love should prove commensurate with divine Power; that He "who made the whole," should love the whole, should Undergo death in thy stead In flesh like thine. (ll. 974-975.)