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And 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 played;

Their lessons scarcely done;

We passed the fields of gazing grain;

We passed the setting sun。



We paused before a house that seemed

A swelling of the ground;

The roof was scarcely visible;

The cornice but a mound。



Since then 't is centuries; but each

Feels shorter than the day

I first surmised the horses' heads

Were toward eternity。









        XXVIII。



She went as quiet as the dew

From a familiar flower。

Not like the dew did she return

At the accustomed hour!



She dropt as softly as a star

From out my summer's eve;

Less skilful than Leverrier

It's sorer to believe!









        XXIX。 



      RESURGAM。



At last to be identified!

At last; the lamps upon thy side;

The rest of life to see!

Past midnight; past the morning star!

Past sunrise! Ah! what leagues there are

Between our feet and day!









        XXX。



Except to heaven; she is nought;

Except for angels; lone;

Except to some wide…wandering bee;

A flower superfluous blown;



Except for winds; provincial;

Except by butterflies;

Unnoticed as a single dew

That on the acre lies。



The smallest housewife in the grass;

Yet take her from the lawn;

And somebody has lost the face

That made existence home!









        XXXI。



Death is a dialogue between

The spirit and the dust。

〃Dissolve;〃 says Death。 The Spirit; 〃Sir;

I have another trust。〃





Death doubts it; argues from the ground。

The Spirit turns away;

Just laying off; for evidence;

An overcoat of clay。









       XXXII。



It was too late for man;

But early yet for God;

Creation impotent to help;

But prayer remained our side。



How excellent the heaven;

When earth cannot be had;

How hospitable; then; the face

Of our old neighbor; God!









       XXXIII。 

       

  ALONG THE POTOMAC。



When I was small; a woman died。

To…day her only boy

Went up from the Potomac;

His face all victory;



To look at her; how slowly

The seasons must have turned

Till bullets clipt an angle;

And he passed quickly round!



If pride shall be in Paradise

I never can decide;

Of their imperial conduct;

No person testified。



But proud in apparition;

That woman and her boy

Pass back and forth before my brain;

As ever in the sky。









       XXXIV。



The daisy follows soft the sun;

And when his golden walk is done;

   Sits shyly at his feet。

He; waking; finds the flower near。

〃Wherefore; marauder; art thou here?〃

   〃Because; sir; love is sweet!〃



We are the flower; Thou the sun!

Forgive us; if as days decline;

   We nearer steal to Thee; 

Enamoured of the parting west;

The peace; the flight; the amethyst;

   Night's possibility!









        XXXV。 

        

    EMANCIPATION。



No rack can torture me;

My soul's at liberty

Behind this mortal bone

There knits a bolder one



You cannot prick with saw;

Nor rend with scymitar。

Two bodies therefore be;

Bind one; and one will flee。



The eagle of his nest

No easier divest

And gain the sky;

Than mayest thou;



Except thyself may be

Thine enemy;

Captivity is consciousness;

So's liberty。









        XXXVI。 

        

        LOST。



I lost a world the other day。

Has anybody found?

You'll know it by the row of stars

Around its forehead bound。



A rich man might not notice it;

Yet to my frugal eye

Of more esteem than ducats。

Oh; find it; sir; for me!









        XXXVII。



If I should n't be alive

When the robins come;

Give the one in red cravat

A memorial crumb。



If I could n't thank you;

Being just asleep;

You will know I'm trying

With my granite lip!









        XXXVIII。



Sleep is supposed to be;

By souls of sanity;

The shutting of the eye。



Sleep is the station grand

Down which on either hand

The hosts of witness stand!



Morn is supposed to be;

By people of degree;

The breaking of the day。



Morning has not occurred!

That shall aurora be

East of eternity;



One with the banner gay;

One in the red array; 

That is the break of day。









        XXXIX。



I shall know why; when time is over;

And I have ceased to wonder why;

Christ will explain each separate anguish

In the fair schoolroom of the sky。



He will tell me what Peter promised;

And I; for wonder at his woe;

I shall forget the drop of anguish

That scalds me now; that scalds me now。









        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!



Angels; twice descending;

Reimbursed my store。

Burglar; banker; father;

I am poor once more!











End of Series 1


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