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501 This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond— Invisible, as Music— But positive, as Sound—
’T IS so much joy! ’T is so much… If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
Yesterday is History, ’Tis so far away - Yesterday is Poetry - ’Tis Philosophy - Yesterday is mystery -
43 Could live—did live— Could die—did die— Could smile upon the whole Through faith in one he met not,
You said that I “was Great”'—one… Then “Great” it be’—if that pleas… Or Small’—or any size at all’— Nay’—I’m the size suit Thee’— Tall’—like the Stag’—would that?
256 If I’m lost—now That I was found— Shall still my transport be— That once—on me—those Jasper Gate…
238 Kill your Balm—and its Odors bles… Bare your Jessamine—to the storm— And she will fling her maddest per… Haply—your Summer night to Charm—
XLI THE soul unto itself Is an imperial friend,— Or the most agonizing spy An enemy could send.
LV MY country need not change her go… Her triple suit as sweet As when ’t was cut at Lexington, And first pronounced “a fit.”
775 If Blame be my side’—forfeit Me’— But doom me not to forfeit Thee’— To forfeit Thee? The very name Is sentence from Belief’—and Hous…
The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful—
XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
901 Sweet, to have had them lost For news that they be saved— The nearer they departed Us The nearer they, restored,
755 No Bobolink—reverse His Singing When the only Tree Ever He minded occupying By the Farmer be—
“Houses”'—so the Wise Men tell me… Houses—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
