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... Indefinite Suggestion   In both these quotations what is common is an indefinite suggestiveness which is the very soul of Yeats's art during his early phase. That phase culminates in Shadowy Waters Page 15 where the story of Forgael and Dectora is told in a language mirroring, as it were, strange symbolic silences, for words are packed with image-colour only to suggest... one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died. Page 23 We and the labouring world are passing by: Amid men's souls, that waver and give place Like the pale waters in their wintry race, Under the passing stars, foam of the sky, Lives on this lonely face.   Bow down, archangels, in your dim abode: Before you were, or any heart to beat, ...