619 Glee - the great storm is over Four - have recovered the Land Forty - gone down together Into the boiling Sand
Ring - for the Scant Salvation Toll - for the bonnie Souls Neighbor - and friend - and Bridegroom, Spinning upon the Shoals
How they will tell the StoryWhen Winter shake the Door Till the Children urge - But the Forty Did they - come back no more?
Then a softness - suffuses the Story And a silence - the Teller's eye And the Children - no further question And only the Sea - reply
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621 I asked no other thing No other - was denied I offered Being - for it The Mighty Merchant sneered
Brazil? He twirled a Button Without a glance my way " But - Madam - is there nothing else That We can show - Today? "
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657 I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior - for Doors
Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky
Of Visitors - the fairest For Occupation - This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise
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680 Each Life Converges to some Centre Expressed - or still Exists in every Human Nature A Goal
Embodied scarcely to itself- it may beToo fair For Credibility's presumption To mar
Adored with caution- as a Brittle HeavenTo reach Were hopeless Rainbow's Raiment To touch
Yet persevered toward
sure- for the distance; How highUnto the Saints" slow diligenceThe Sky
Ungained- it may be
by a Life's low VentureBut then Eternity enables the endeavoring Again.
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686 They say that "Time assuages"
Time never did assuageAn actual suffering strengthens
As Sinews do, with age
Time is a Test of Trouble,
But not a RemedyIf such it prove, it prove too
There was no Malady
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712 Because I could not stop for DeathHe kindly stopped for meThe Carriage held but just OurselvesAnd Immortality.
We slowly drove - He knew no haste And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For His Civility
We passed the School where Children strove At Recess - in the RingWe passed the Fields of Gazing Grain We passed the Setting Sun
Or rather -- He passed UsThe Dews drew quivering and chillFor only Gossamer, my GownMy Tippet -- only Tulle
We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the GroundThe Roof was scarcely visibleThe Cornice -- in the Ground
Since then - "t is Centuries-and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses" Heads Were toward Eternity
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875 I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way The Stars about my Head I felt About my Feet the Sea.
I knew not but the next Would be my final inch This gave me that precarious Gait Some call Experience.
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887 We outgrow love like other things And put it in the Drawer Till it an Antique fashion shows Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
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919 If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, Or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
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1072 Title divine - is mine! The Wife - without the Sign! Acute Degree - conferred on me Empress of Calvary! Royal - all but the Crown! Betrothed - without the swoon God sends us Women When you - hold - Garnet to Garnet Gold - to Gold
Born - Bridalled - Shrouded In a Day Tri Victory " My Husband" - women say Stroking the Melody Is this - the way?
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1176 We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise And then if we are true to plan Our statures touch the skies
The Heroism we recite Would be a daily thing Did not ourselves the Cubits warp For fear to be a King
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1182 Rememberance has a Rear and Front 'T is something like a House It has a Garret also For Refuse and the Mouse,
Besides the deepest Cellar That ever Mason laid Look to it by its Fathoms Ourselves be not pursued