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427 I’ll clutch—and clutch— Next—One—Might be the golden touc… Could take it— Diamonds—Wait—
Revolution is the Pod Systems rattle from When the Winds of Will are stirre… Excellent is Bloom But except its Russet Base
30 Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town?
Our lives are Swiss— So still—so Cool— Till some odd afternoon The Alps neglect their Curtains And we look farther on!
50 I haven’t told my garden yet— Lest that should conquer me. I haven’t quite the strength now To break it to the Bee—
221 It can’t be “Summer”! That—got through! It’s early—yet—for “Spring”! There’s that long town of White—t…
XIV SOME things that fly there be,— Birds, hours, the bumble-bee: Of these no elegy. Some things that stay there be,—
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—
A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook,
37 Before the ice is in the pools— Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow—
376 Of Course—I prayed— And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird—had stamped her foot—
485 To make One’s Toilette—after Dea… Has made the Toilette cool Of only Taste we cared to please Is difficult, and still—
188 Make me a picture of the sun— So I can hang it in my room— And make believe I’m getting warm When others call it “Day”!
II OUR share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning.
The Beggar at the Door for Fame Were easily supplied But Bread is that Diviner thing Disclosed to be denied