He used to seat you on the piano and then, with vehement gestures and pirouettings, would argue the case. Not one word of the speech did you understand.

We do not aim to eliminate Sex Love, or to suppress its manifestations; but we wish to foster & encourage it; we wish to make real love & true affection take the place of so much depletive, demoralizing, coitive love.

Wee'll dine in the great roome, but let the muſick / And banquet be prepar'd here.

It was qua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.