True science finds its own by kindlier quest, Nor lowers itself to torture’s loathsome test; Multiplies not the sentient being’s pain, But makes a keener lens of man’s own brain; Seeks not by outrage dire a soul to grasp, Or dimly trace its agonising gasp; But surer learns what fire that soul may move, Not wrung with deathly pang, but thrilled by breath of love. LV. To touch of love alone will Nature pour The choicest treasures of her occult store; Into the ear of love alone repeat The secret of the song our pulses beat; To eye of love alone, with joyance bright, Shows she her form suffused in living light; To heart that loves her, Nature gives to know How from Love’s might alone all thoughts of Wisdom grow. LVI. So opes a vaster knowledge to the view, Love points the way and woman holds the clue; Nature on her the trustful office laid, And arbiter of human fortune made; With woman honoured, rises man to height, With her degraded, sinks again in night; Yet still the wayward race has sluggish been To learn the fealty due to Earth’s advancing queen. LVII. For long, in jealousy for corporal power, Had man contemned his sister’s worthier dower; What time his ruder feelings held the sway, With little hope or hint of truer way; Till on a wistful world has dawned benign The prescience of a potency divine Sleeping, unrecked of, deep in woman’s heart, Waiting some kiss superne, into full life to start. LVIII. Woman’s own soul must seek and find that fay, And wake it into light of quickening day; Man’s counsel helpful in that track shall be For all his learning rich return and fee; His philosophic and chirurgic lore, To her imparted, swell her innate store; Till, clothed with majesty of mind she stand, Regent of Nature’s will, in heart, and head, and hand. LIX. Each sequent life shall feel her finer care, Each heir of life a wealthier bounty share; Those lives allied in equal union chaste A sweeter purpose, purer rapture, taste; Both parents vindicate the duteous name, The troth and kinship of their linked claim; The only rivalry that moves their mind, How for their lineage fair still larger fate to find. LX. Their task ineffable yields wondrous gain, Their energies celestial force attain; Their intermingled souls, with passion dight, In aspiration soar past earthly height; Nor fades their prospect into void again,— Woman has gift the vision to retain, And mould their dreams of love, with conscious skill, To human living types supreme of form and will. LXI.