The spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands— And dancing softly to Himself His Yarn of Pearl—unwinds— He plies from Nought to Nought—

She sweeps with many-colored broom… And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond! You dropped a purple ravelling in,

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,

488 Myself was formed’—a Carpenter’— An unpretending time My Plane’—and I, together wrought Before a Builder came’—

How Human Nature dotes On what it can’t detect. The moment that a Plot is plumbed Prospective is extinct - Prospective is the friend

No brigadier throughout the year So civic as the jay. A neighbor and a warrior too, With shrill felicity Pursuing winds that censure us

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love, but since

Presentiment is that long shadow o… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

582 Inconceivably solemn! Things go gay Pierce—by the very Press Of Imagery—

867 Escaping backward to perceive The Sea upon our place— Escaping forward, to confront His glittering Embrace—