...one called, and the only companions of our chosen solitude were the books we all loved so much, and The secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.17 I had hoped that the Women's National Council, a branch of which was formed...

...hoped. They feel not desire, but love: True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes,...the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie . . .9 Love finds a way to end the feud. Lord Henry Cranstoun, disguised, kills the English champion...

...to Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel": True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not Fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes,...doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver cord, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. I reread...

...loved so well. True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: . . . It L> the secret sympathy The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. (V.xiii; my italics) What begins as a conventional recitation of the near-divinity...