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557 She hideth Her the last— And is the first, to rise— Her Night doth hardly recompense The Closing of Her eyes—
XXXIV NATURE is what we see, The Hill, the Afternoon— Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee… Nay—Nature is Heaven.
302 Like Some Old fashioned Miracle When Summertime is done— Seems Summer’s Recollection And the Affairs of June
70 “Arcturus” is his other name— I’d rather call him “Star.” It’s very mean of Science To go and interfere!
350 They leave us with the Infinite. But He—is not a man— His fingers are the size of fists— His fists, the size of men—
521 Endow the Living—with the Tears— You squander on the Dead, And They were Men and Women—now, Around Your Fireside—
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
118 My friend attacks my friend! Oh Battle picturesque! Then I turn Soldier too, And he turns Satirist!
383 Exhiliration—is within— There can no Outer Wine So royally intoxicate As that diviner Brand
52 Whether my bark went down at sea— Whether she met with gales— Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails—
XXVII BECAUSE I could not stop for D… He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Oursel… And Immortality.
Who were “the Father and the Son” We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us And when portentous told With inference appalling
531 We dream—it is good we are dreamin… It would hurt us—were we awake— But since it is playing—kill us, And we are playing—shriek—
XL I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
663 Again—his voice is at the door— I feel the old Degree— I hear him ask the servant For such an one—as me—