Mme Emile Chartier, nee Gabrielle Landormy (W); 17Aug62; R299915. Sentiments, passions et signes, par Alain, pseud.

Call him aged, or young, 'tis a fruitless endeavour To uproot a desire I must cherish for ever; Call him old, call him young, who can passion control? Ever present, and loved, he entrances my soul. 'Tis for him

"The mind's affections patience will appease, It passions kills, and healeth each disease.

The tyrant passions all subside, Fear, anger, pity, shame, and pride, No more my bosom move; Yet still I felt, or seemed to feel A kind of visionary zeal Of universal love.

It were a pleasant pastime to construct A scale and table of beliefas thus Two columns, one for passion, one for proof; Each rises as the other falls: and first, Passion a unit and against usproof Nay, we must travel in another path, Or we're stuck fast for ever;passion, then, Shall be a unit for us; proofno, passion!

'We are told that turtles passion their voices; that an arbour was nested, and a lady's locks gordianed up; and, to supply the place of the nouns thus verbalized, Mr. Keats, with great fecundity, spawns new ones, such as men-slugs and human serpentry, the honey-feel of bliss, wives prepare needments, and so forth.