Especially as regards religious poetry we are as yet only approaching the lyrical jubilee.

Fact and faith, self-consciousness and metaphysics, all are needful to the lyric of love.

Modesty and art find their grandest, simplest labour in rightly subordinating each of those to the others.

How could we have a George Herbert without metaphysics?
In those poems I have just given, the way of metaphysics was prepared for him.

That which overcolours one age to the injury of its harmony, will, in the next or the next, fall into its own place in the seven-chorded rainbow of truth..