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Our life; his porcelain;

Like a cup



Discarded of the housewife;

Quaint or broken;

A newer Sevres pleases;

Old ones crack。



I could not die with you;

For one must wait

To shut the other's gaze down; 

You could not。



And I; could I stand by

And see you freeze;

Without my right of frost;

Death's privilege?



Nor could I rise with you;

Because your face

Would put out Jesus';

That new grace



Glow plain and foreign

On my homesick eye;

Except that you; than he

Shone closer by。



They'd judge us  how?

For you served Heaven; you know;

Or sought to;

I could not;



Because you saturated sight;

And I had no more eyes

For sordid excellence

As Paradise。



And were you lost; I would be;

Though my name

Rang loudest

On the heavenly fame。



And were you saved;

And I condemned to be

Where you were not;

That self were hell to me。



So we must keep apart;

You there; I here;

With just the door ajar

That oceans are;

And prayer;

And that pale sustenance;

Despair!









        XIII。 



    RENUNCIATION。





There came a day at summer's full

Entirely for me;

I thought that such were for the saints;

Where revelations be。



The sun; as common; went abroad;

The flowers; accustomed; blew;

As if no soul the solstice passed

That maketh all things new。



The time was scarce profaned by speech;

The symbol of a word

Was needless; as at sacrament

The wardrobe of our Lord。



Each was to each the sealed church;

Permitted to commune this time;

Lest we too awkward show

At supper of the Lamb。



The hours slid fast; as hours will;

Clutched tight by greedy hands;

So faces on two decks look back;

Bound to opposing lands。



And so; when all the time had failed;

Without external sound;

Each bound the other's crucifix;

We gave no other bond。



Sufficient troth that we shall rise 

Deposed; at length; the grave 

To that new marriage; justified

Through Calvaries of Love!









        XIV。 



   LOVE'S BAPTISM。





I'm ceded; I've stopped being theirs;

The name they dropped upon my face

With water; in the country church;

Is finished using now;

And they can put it with my dolls;

My childhood; and the string of spools

I've finished threading too。



Baptized before without the choice;

But this time consciously; of grace

Unto supremest name;

Called to my full; the crescent dropped;

Existence's whole arc filled up

With one small diadem。



My second rank; too small the first;

Crowned; crowing on my father's breast;

A half unconscious queen;

But this time; adequate; erect;

With will to choose or to reject。

And I choose  just a throne。









        XV。 



   RESURRECTION。





'T was a long parting; but the time

For interview had come;

Before the judgment…seat of God;

The last and second time



These fleshless lovers met;

A heaven in a gaze;

A heaven of heavens; the privilege

Of one another's eyes。



No lifetime set on them;

Apparelled as the new

Unborn; except they had beheld;

Born everlasting now。



Was bridal e'er like this?

A paradise; the host;

And cherubim and seraphim

The most familiar guest。









        XVI。 



    APOCALYPSE。





I'm wife; I've finished that;

That other state;

I'm Czar; I'm woman now:

It's safer so。



How odd the girl's life looks

Behind this soft eclipse!

I think that earth seems so

To those in heaven now。



This being comfort; then

That other kind was pain;

But why compare?

I'm wife! stop there!









        XVII。

        

      THE WIFE。



She rose to his requirement; dropped

The playthings of her life

To take the honorable work

Of woman and of wife。



If aught she missed in her new day

Of amplitude; or awe;

Or first prospective; or the gold

In using wore away;



It lay unmentioned; as the sea

Develops pearl and weed;

But only to himself is known

The fathoms they abide。









        XVIII。 

        

      APOTHEOSIS。



Come slowly; Eden!

Lips unused to thee;

Bashful; sip thy jasmines;

As the fainting bee;



Reaching late his flower;

Round her chamber hums;

Counts his nectars  enters;

And is lost in balms!























                 III。 

                 

                NATURE。



















        I。



New feet within my garden go;

New fingers stir the sod;

A troubadour upon the elm

Betrays the solitude。



New children play upon the green;

New weary sleep below;

And still the pensive spring returns;

And still the punctual snow!









        II。 

        

   MAY…FLOWER。



Pink; small; and punctual;

Aromatic; low;

Covert in April;

Candid in May;



Dear to the moss;

Known by the knoll;

Next to the robin

In every human soul。



Bold little beauty;

Bedecked with thee;

Nature forswears

Antiquity。









        III。 



        WHY?



THE murmur of a bee

A witchcraft yieldeth me。

If any ask me why;

'T were easier to die

Than tell。



The red upon the hill

Taketh away my will;

If anybody sneer;

Take care; for God is here;

That's all。



The breaking of the day

Addeth to my degree;

If any ask me how;

Artist; who drew me so;

Must tell!









        IV。



Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?

But I could never sell。

If you would like to borrow

Until the daffodil



Unties her yellow bonnet

Beneath the village door;

Until the bees; from clover rows

Their hock and sherry draw;



Why; I will lend until just then;

But not an hour more!









        V。



The pedigree of honey

Does not concern the bee;

A clover; any time; to him

Is aristocracy。









        VI。 

        

  A SERVICE OF SONG。



Some keep the Sabbath going to church;

I keep it staying at home;

With a bobolink for a chorister;

And an orchard for a dome。



Some keep the Sabbath in surplice;

I just wear my wings;

And instead of tolling the bell for church;

Our little sexton sings。



God preaches;  a noted clergyman; 

And the sermon is never long;

So instead of getting to heaven at last;

I'm going all along!









        VII。



The bee is not afraid of me;

I know the butterfly;

The pretty people in the woods

Receive me cordially。



The brooks laugh louder when I come;

The breezes madder play。

Wherefore; mine eyes; thy silver mists?

Wherefore; O summer's day?









        VIII。 

        

   SUMMER'S ARMIES。



Some rainbow coming from the fair!

Some vision of the world Cashmere

I confidently see!

Or else a peacock's purple train;

Feather by feather; on the plain

Fritters itself away!



The dreamy butterflies bestir;

Lethargic pools resume the whir

Of last year's sundered tune。

From some old fortress on the sun

Baronial bees march; one by one;

In murmuring platoon!



The robins stand as thick to…day

As flakes of snow stood yesterday;

On fence and roof and twig。

The orchis binds her feather on

For her old lover; Don the Sun;

Revisiting the bog!



Without commander; countless; still;

The regiment of wood and hill

In bright detachment stand。

Behold! Whose multitudes are these?

The children of whose turbaned seas;

Or what Circassian land?









        IX。 

        

     THE GRASS。



The grass so little has to do; 

A sphere of simple green;

With only butterflies to brood;

And bees to entertain;



And stir all day to pretty tunes

The breezes fetch along;

And hold the sunshine in its lap

And bow to everything;



And thread the dews all night; like pearls;

And make itself so fine; 

A duchess were too common

For such a noticing。



And even when it dies; to pass

In odors so divine;

As lowly spices gone to sleep;

Or amulets of pine。



And then to dwell in sovereign barns;

And dream the days away; 

The grass so little has to do;

I wish I were the hay!









        X。



A little road not made of man;

Enabled of the eye;

Accessible to thill of bee;

Or cart of butterfly。



If town it have; beyond itself;

'T is that I cannot say;

I only sigh;  no vehicle

Bears me along that way。









        XI。 

        

  SUMMER SHOWER。



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;

That went to help the sea。

Myself conjectured; Were they pearls;

What necklaces could be!



The dust replaced in hoisted roads;

The birds jocoser sung;

The sunshine threw his hat away;

The orchards spangles hung。



The breezes brought dejected lutes;

And bathed them in the glee;

The East put out a single flag;

And signed the fete away。









        XII。 

        

  PSALM OF THE DAY。



A something in a summer's day;

As sIow her flambeaux burn away;

Which solemnizes me。



A something in a summer's noon; 

An azure depth; a wordless tune;

Transcending ecstasy。



And still within a summer's night

A something so transporting bright;

I clap my hands to see;



Then veil my too inspecting face;

Lest such a subtle; shimmering grace

Flutter too far for me。



The wizard…fingers never rest;

The purple brook within the breast

Still chafes its narrow bed;



Still rears the East her amber flag;

Guides still the sun along the crag

His caravan of red;



Like flowers that heard the tale of dews;

But never deemed the dripping prize

Awaited their low brows;



Or bees; that thought the summer's name

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