The psychic and the physical at one In fervid vigour through their frame shall run; Their science leaps the bounds of straiter space, Whose crude dimensions curbed their growing grace; Whose inefficiencies allowed not verge For rich research their lofty souls would urge; To them the keys of life and love are given,— The love that lifts the life from rank of earth to heaven. LXII. And “winged words on which the soul would pierce Into the height of love’s rare Universe” Shall native flow from them as mother tongue In softest strain to listening infant sung; Till, the sad memories of unmeant wrong Solving in music of conciliant song, Man’s destiny with woman’s blended be In one sublime progression,—full, and strong, and free. LXIII. =L’Envoi.= The bard of yore, the stately Florentine,— The seer of the dream men named Divine,— Through whose grave tones one strenuous passion rolled, While to slow ears the voice fell stern or cold,— In his last verse proclaimed his crowning faith, By words whose echoes pass the bar of death;— As breathed his soul with Beatrice afar— “The love that moves the sun and every circling star.” WOMAN FREE. NOTES, &c. I. 2.—“_Science calm moves_ ...” “Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”—George Eliot (“Middlemarch,” Chap. LXXIII.) 3.—“_Research and reason_ ...” As indicated by Professor Oliver T. Lodge, “It is but a platitude to say that our clear and conscious aim should always be truth, and that no lower or meaner standard should ever be allowed to obtrude itself before us. Our ancestors fought hard and suffered much for the privilege of free and open inquiry, for the right of conducting investigation untrammelled by prejudice and foregone conclusions, and they were ready to examine into any phenomenon which presented itself.... Fear of avowing interest or of examining into unorthodox facts is, I venture to say, not in accordance with the highest traditions of the scientific attitude.”—(Address as President of the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, 1891.) See also the words of Richard Jefferies:—“Research proceeds upon the same old lines and runs in the ancient grooves.... But there should be no limit placed on the mind.... Most injurious of all is the continuous circling on the same path, and it is from this that I wish to free my mind.”—(“The Story of My Heart,” Chap. X.) 5.—“... _part revealed_.”