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O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured, Wanted ye ever once to come twice; said ye ever: "Thou pleasest me, happiness! Instant! Moment!" then wanted ye ALL to come back again! All anew, all eternal, all enlinked, enlaced and enamoured, Oh, then did ye LOVE the world,

So long as the man to be portrayed cannot be separated from his surroundings, so long as his portrait cannot be fully and honestly limned without peril to the peace of those among whom he movedin a word, so long as there remains any throb of vitality in those delicate filaments of social life by which he was enlinked to those with whom he played his partthat brother, or that friend, or that outsider who shall attempt the portraiture must feel what heavy responsibilities are hismust not forget that with him to trip is to sin against the head.

II. Secondly, as to the idea of man's relation to God, this, were it capable of disjunction, would be even more of a revolutionary idea than the idea of God. But the one idea is enlinked with the other.

Three travelers making haste, And whisp'ring of some errand of their own, With arms enlinked and garments backward blown, Across a twilight waste. Three gibbets dumb and tall, Against the east, with scrawny arms, outlined; Far off a lonely tower, left behind, With silver cross and ball.