Champneys, i. 146.
[15] _The Angel in the House._ Bk. ii. prelude ii.
[16] _The Angel in the House_, canto viii. prelude iv.
[17] See pp. 113, 114 below.
[18] _The Child's Purchase_ and _The Toys_, poems, I vol., 1906, pp.
287, 354.
[19] _Seligio Poetae_, 1893, p. 163.
[20] _Religio Poetae_, 1893, p. 44.
[21] The "Ring" of Eternity is a familiar mystical symbol which Vaughan
doubtless knew in other writers; for instance as used by Suso or
Ruysbroeck. See _Mysticism_, by E. Underhill, p. 489 and note.
[22] See the illuminating description of this essentially mystic feeling
given by J. Stewart in _The Myths of Pinto_, Introduction, pp. 39 _et
seq._
[23] _The Story of my Heart_, pp. 87, 88.
[24] _Ibid._, p. 76.
[25] _The Story of my Heart_, p. 199.
[26] _Ibid._, p. 71.
[27] _Ibid._, p. 74.
[28] See _Compendium of Philosophy_, a mediaeval digest of the
Abhidhamma, translated by S. Z. Aung and Mrs Rhys Davids, 1910, 152 f.
[29] We cannot agree with Prof Grierson, who, in his fine recent edition
of the poet (_Donne's Poems_, Oxford, 1912, vol ii., pp. cxxxv.-vi.),
holds that the style and tone of this song point to Donne not being the
author.
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