Wanting is—What?
Wanting is—what?Summer redundant,Blueness abundant,—Where is the spot?Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same, 5—Framework which waits for a picture to frame:What of the leafage, what of the flower?Roses embowering with nought they embower!Come then, complete incompletion, O Comer,Pant through the blueness, perfect the summer! 10Breathe but one breathRose-beauty above,And all that was deathGrows life, grows love,Grows love! 15
— 4. spot: defect, imperfection.
9. O Comer: o‘ e’rxo/menos, Matt. 3:11; 11:3; 21:9; 23:39; Luke 19:38; John 1:15; 3:31; 12:13. Without love, the Christ-spirit, the spirit of the Comer, man sees, at best, only dynamic action, blind force, in nature; but
“love greatens and glorifiesTill God’s a-glow, to the loving eyes,In what was mere earth before.”James Lee’s Wife (Along the Beach).—