...fire" imagery. At the heart of the analogy is the interrelationship of forms. Oceanus states: "Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel with the proud forests it hath fed, And feedcth still, more comely than itself? Can it deny the chiefdom of green groves? Or shall the tree...

...in his account of universal destiny to progressive "perfection." Take, for example, his key analogy: Shall the tree be envious of the dove Because it cooeth,...wander wherewithal and find its joys? We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feather'd,...

...that old Darkness: nor are we Thereby more conquer'd, than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel with the proud forests...feedeth still, more comely than itself? Can it deny the chief dom107 of green groves? Or shall the tree be envious of the dove Because it cooeth, and hath...

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...glory that old Darkness: nor are we Thereby more conquered than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil Quarrel with the proud forests...itself? Can it deny the chiefdom of green groves? 220 Or shall the tree be envious of the dove Because it cooeth, and hath snowy wings To wander wherewithal...

...old Darkness: nor are we 215 "Thereby more conquer'd, than by us the rule "Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil "Quarrel with the proud forests...itself ? "Can it deny the chiefdom of green groves ? 220 "Or shall the tree be envious of the dove "Because it cooeth, and hath snowy wings "To wander...