Has your understanding begun to flower…?

Another inscrutable delight! If 'true flowers' are a symbol of beauty and 'polished vases' contain them, then the 'marble pedestals' are emblematic of the elevation of clical learning 'under ... shining eyes.' Without the refining power of human intellect, all that is beautiful in the world is lost in the abyss. Beauty is then the outward manifestation and adornment of Knowledge, the 'fringe of the / Encyclopedia.' With this any reasonable man would agree at once...