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18 The Gentian weaves her fringes— The Maple’s loom is red— My departing blossoms Obviate parade.
833 Perhaps you think me stooping I’m not ashamed of that Christ—stooped until He touched t… Do those at Sacrament
305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been—
No rack can torture me, My soul’s at liberty Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw,
619 Glee—The great storm is over— Four—have recovered the Land— Forty gone down together— Into the boiling Sand.
674 The Soul that hath a Guest Doth seldom go abroad— Diviner Crowd at Home— Obliterate the need—
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!
765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
Pain—has an Element of Blank— It cannot recollect When it begun—or if there were A time when it was not— It has no Future—but itself—
45 There’s something quieter than sle… Within this inner room! It wears a sprig upon its breast— And will not tell its name.
932 My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word— The Stars that stated come to Tow… Esteemed Me never rude
A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a dew
847 Finite’—to fail, but infinite to… For the one ship that struts the s… Many’s the gallant’—overwhelmed C… Nodding in Navies nevermore’—
649 Her Sweet turn to leave the Homes… Came the Darker Way— Carriages—Be Sure—and Guests—too… But for Holiday