completes

even more actively visual and physical “nibbling” brings “turfy”

back to life and incidentally completes the presentation of a pastoral

Clearly there is nothing high here. But the scenes are not unrelated:

the first ruins Macbeth’s dynastic hopes, the second completes the

ruin of his moral claims, the third looks to the ruin of his security.

And First with Reason, which is also Best;

Reason that rights the Retrograde—completes

The Imperfect—Reason that unties the Knot:

All her body and soul

That completes my whole,

All that women add to men,

Illustrious maid, new wonders fix me thine;

Thy soul completes the triumphs of thy face.

I thought (forgive, my fair,) the noblest aim,

not only has the same sort of Doric delicacy which charms us

peculiarly in this part of the poem, but also completes the account

of his whole day; whereas, this evening scene being omitted, we have

All this is quite literal; and the tomb of the poet himself, near the

southeast window, completes the impression of the scene. It is a

plain brick altar tomb, covered with a blue slate slab, and, besides

It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,

That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.