And lest this be not strong enough, he sings in "The Need to Love" as
great a song as man ever heard on this great theme:
"The need to love that all the stars obey
Entered my heart and banished all beside.
Bare were the gardens where I used to stray;
Faded the flowers that one time satisfied."
Poems by Alan Seeger.
Then, not content, he sets up an altar of poetry and dedicates it to
Love and lights a fire of worship there, and leaves it not, nor night
nor day:
"All that's not love is the dearth of my days,
The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit,
The temple in times without prayer, without praise,
The altar unset and the candle unlit."
Poems by Alan Seeger.
If Love be not queen to him, the palace is cold and barren; the "altar
unset and the candle unlit"