| Quote #1 The soul descends once more in bitter love (26) |
The soul has to make sacrifices for the human, and it's a little resentful of this. But as we read on we see that the soul becomes less upset about it.
| Quote #2 To accept the waking body, saying now (27) |
Here the soul accepts the body out of love and forgives the body for its human weakness, which is good because otherwise we'd probably be stuck in bed all day.
| Quote #3 Bring them down from their ruddy gallows; (29) |
The soul loves the humans enough to want them saved, even though loving them means dealing with more than a little dirty laundry.