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733 The Spirit is the Conscious Ear. We actually Hear When We inspect—that’s audible— That is admitted—Here—
Two butterflies went out at noon And waltzed above a stream, Then stepped straight through the… And rested on a beam; And then together bore away
Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight,
Nature the gentlest mother is, Impatient of no child, The feeblest of the waywardest. Her admonition mild In forest and the hill
383 Exhiliration—is within— There can no Outer Wine So royally intoxicate As that diviner Brand
The Butterfly in honored Dust Assuredly will lie But none will pass the Catacomb So chastened as the Fly -
721 Behind Me’—dips Eternity’— Before Me’—Immortality’— Myself’—the Term between’— Death but the Drift of Eastern G…
856 There is a finished feeling Experienced at Graves— A leisure of the Future— A Wilderness of Size.
“Sic transit gloria mundi,” “How doth the busy bee,” “Dum vivimus vivamus,” I stay mine enemy! Oh “veni, vidi, vici!”
The show is not the show, But they that go. Menagerie to me My neighbor be. Fair play—
16 I would distil a cup, And bear to all my friends, Drinking to her no more astir, By beck, or burn, or moor!
603 He found my Being—set it up— Adjusted it to place— Then carved his name—upon it— And bade it to the East
IF I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin
My River runs to thee’— Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me? My River wait reply’— Oh Sea’—look graciously’— I’ll fetch thee Brooks
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—