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Awaited their low brows;



Or bees; that thought the summer's name

Some rumor of delirium

No summer could for them;



Or Arctic creature; dimly stirred

By tropic hint;  some travelled bird

Imported to the wood;



Or wind's bright signal to the ear;

Making that homely and severe;

Contented; known; before



The heaven unexpected came;

To lives that thought their worshipping

A too presumptuous psalm。









        XIII。 



  THE SEA OF SUNSET。



This is the land the sunset washes;

These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;

Where it rose; or whither it rushes;

These are the western mystery!



Night after night her purple traffic

Strews the landing with opal bales;

Merchantmen poise upon horizons;

Dip; and vanish with fairy sails。









        XIV。 

        

   PURPLE CLOVER。



There is a flower that bees prefer;

And butterflies desire;

To gain the purple democrat

The humming…birds aspire。



And whatsoever insect pass;

A honey bears away

Proportioned to his several dearth

And her capacity。



Her face is rounder than the moon;

And ruddier than the gown

Of orchis in the pasture;

Or rhododendron worn。



She doth not wait for June;

Before the world is green

Her sturdy little countenance

Against the wind is seen;



Contending with the grass;

Near kinsman to herself;

For privilege of sod and sun;

Sweet litigants for life。



And when the hills are full;

And newer fashions blow;

Doth not retract a single spice

For pang of jealousy。



Her public is the noon;

Her providence the sun;

Her progress by the bee proclaimed

In sovereign; swerveless tune。



The bravest of the host;

Surrendering the last;

Nor even of defeat aware

When cancelled by the frost。









        XV。 



     THE BEE。



Like trains of cars on tracks of plush

I hear the level bee:

A jar across the flowers goes;

Their velvet masonry



Withstands until the sweet assault

Their chivalry consumes;

While he; victorious; tilts away

To vanquish other blooms。



His feet are shod with gauze;

His helmet is of gold;

His breast; a single onyx

With chrysoprase; inlaid。



His labor is a chant;

His idleness a tune;

Oh; for a bee's experience

Of clovers and of noon!









        XVI。



Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn

Indicative that suns go down;

The notice to the startled grass

That darkness is about to pass。









        XVII。



As children bid the guest good…night;

And then reluctant turn;

My flowers raise their pretty lips;

Then put their nightgowns on。



As children caper when they wake;

Merry that it is morn;

My flowers from a hundred cribs

Will peep; and prance again。









        XVIII。



Angels in the early morning

May be seen the dews among;

Stooping; plucking; smiling; flying:

Do the buds to them belong?



Angels when the sun is hottest

May be seen the sands among;

Stooping; plucking; sighing; flying;

Parched the flowers they bear along。









        XIX。



So bashful when I spied her;

So pretty; so ashamed!

So hidden in her leaflets;

Lest anybody find;



So breathless till I passed her;

So helpless when I turned

And bore her; struggling; blushing;

Her simple haunts beyond!



For whom I robbed the dingle;

For whom betrayed the dell;

Many will doubtless ask me;

But I shall never tell!









        XX。 



    TWO WORLDS。



It makes no difference abroad;

The seasons fit the same;

The mornings blossom into noons;

And split their pods of flame。



Wild…flowers kindle in the woods;

The brooks brag all the day;

No blackbird bates his jargoning

For passing Calvary。



Auto…da…fe and judgment

Are nothing to the bee;

His separation from his rose

To him seems misery。









        XXI。 

        

   THE MOUNTAIN。



The mountain sat upon the plain

In his eternal chair;

His observation omnifold;

His inquest everywhere。



The seasons prayed around his knees;

Like children round a sire:

Grandfather of the days is he;

Of dawn the ancestor。









        XXII。 

        

       A DAY。



I'll tell you how the sun rose; 

A ribbon at a time。

The steeples swam in amethyst;

The news like squirrels ran。



The hills untied their bonnets;

The bobolinks begun。

Then I said softly to myself;

〃That must have been the sun!〃



        *  *  *



But how he set; I know not。

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while



Till when they reached the other side;

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars;

And led the flock away。









        XXIII。



The butterfiy's assumption…gown;

In chrysoprase apartments hung;

  This afternoon put on。





How condescending to descend;

And be of buttercups the friend

  In a New England town!









        XXIV。 

        

      THE WIND。



Of all the sounds despatched abroad;

There's not a charge to me

Like that old measure in the boughs;

That phraseless melody



The wind does; working like a hand

Whose fingers brush the sky;

Then quiver down; with tufts of tune

Permitted gods and me。



When winds go round and round in bands;

And thrum upon the door;

And birds take places overhead;

To bear them orchestra;



I crave him grace; of summer boughs;

If such an outcast be;

He never heard that fleshless chant

Rise solemn in the tree;



As if some caravan of sound

On deserts; in the sky;

Had broken rank;

Then knit; and passed

In seamless company。









        XXV。 



   DEATH AND LIFE。



Apparently with no surprise

To any happy flower;

The frost beheads it at its play

In accidental power。

The blond assassin passes on;

The sun proceeds unmoved

To measure off another day

For an approving God。









        XXVI。



'T WAS later when the summer went

Than when the cricket came;

And yet we knew that gentle clock

Meant nought but going home。



'T was sooner when the cricket went

Than when the winter came;

Yet that pathetic pendulum

Keeps esoteric time。









        XXVII。 



    INDIAN SUMMER。



These are the days when birds come back;

A very few; a bird or two;

To take a backward look。



These are the days when skies put on

The old; old sophistries of June; 

A blue and gold mistake。



Oh; fraud that cannot cheat the bee;

Almost thy plausibility

Induces my belief;



Till ranks of seeds their witness bear;

And softly through the altered air

Hurries a timid leaf!



Oh; sacrament of summer days;

Oh; last communion in the haze;

Permit a child to join;



Thy sacred emblems to partake;

Thy consecrated bread to break;

Taste thine immortal wine!









        XXVIII。 



        AUTUMN。



The morns are meeker than they were;

The nuts are getting brown;

The berry's cheek is plumper;

The rose is out of town。



The maple wears a gayer scarf;

The field a scarlet gown。

Lest I should be old…fashioned;

I'll put a trinket on。









        XXIX。 

        

      BECLOUDED。



The sky is low; the clouds are mean;

A travelling flake of snow

Across a barn or through a rut

Debates if it will go。



A narrow wind complains all day

How some one treated him;

Nature; like us; is sometimes caught

Without her diadem。









        XXX。 



    THE HEMLOCK。



I think the hemlock likes to stand

Upon a marge of snow;

It suits his own austerity;

And satisfies an awe



That men must slake in wilderness;

Or in the desert cloy; 

An instinct for the hoar; the bald;

Lapland's necessity。



The hemlock's nature thrives on cold;

The gnash of northern winds

Is sweetest nutriment to him;

His best Norwegian wines。



To satin races he is nought;

But children on the Don

Beneath his tabernacles play;

And Dnieper wrestlers run。









        XXXI。



There's a certain slant of light;

On winter afternoons;

That oppresses; like the weight

Of cathedral tunes。



Heavenly hurt it gives us;

We can find no scar;

But internal difference

Where the meanings are。



None may teach it anything;

' T is the seal; despair; 

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the air。



When it comes; the landscape listens;

Shadows hold their breath;

When it goes; 't is like the distance

On the look of death。





















                    IV。 



             TIME AND ETERNITY。





















        I。



One dignity delays for all;

One mitred afternoon。

None can avoid this purple;

None evade this crown。



Coach it insures; and footmen;

Chamber and state and throng;

Bells; also; in the village;

As we ride grand along。



What dignified attendants;

What service when we pause!

How loyally at parting

Their hundred hats they raise!



How pomp surpassing ermine;

When simple you and I

Present our meek escutcheon;

And claim the rank to die!









        II。 

        

     TOO LATE。



Delayed till she had ceased to know;

Delayed till in its vest of snow

   Her loving bosom lay。

An hour behind the fleeting breath;

Later by just an hour than death; 

   Oh; lagging yesterday!



Could she have guessed that it would be;

Could but a crier of the glee

   Have climbed the distant hill;

Had not the bliss so slow a pace; 

Who knows but this surrendered face

   Were undefeated still?



Oh; if there may departing be

Any forgot by victory

   In her imperial round;

Show them this meek apparelled thing;

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