The poems are quite different from any we have had before.
There has been only a few of such writers in our nation, but I suspect those have had a good deal more influence upon the religious life of it than many thinkers suppose.

They are in closest sympathy with the deeper forms of truth employed by St.Paul and St.John.This last poem, concerning humility as the house in which charity dwells, is very truth.
A repentant sinner feels that he is making himself little when he prays to be made humble: the Christian philosopher sees such a glory and spiritual wealth in humility that it appears to him almost too much to pray for.
The very essence of these mystical writers seems to me to be poetry.

They use the largest figures for the largest spiritual ideas--_light_ for _good, darkness_ for _evil_.

Such symbols are the true bodies of the true ideas.

For this service mainly what we term _nature_ was called into being, namely, to furnish forms for truths, for without form truth cannot be uttered.