315 He fumbles at your Soul As Players at the Keys Before they drop full Music on— He stuns you by degrees—

969 He who in Himself believes— Fraud cannot presume— Faith is Constancy’s Result— And assumes—from Home—

Part One: Life HE preached upon “breadth” till i… The broad are too broad to define: And of “truth” until it proclaimed… The truth never flaunted a sign.

217 Savior! I’ve no one else to tell— And so I trouble thee. I am the one forgot thee so— Dost thou remember me?

989 Gratitude—is not the mention Of a Tenderness, But its still appreciation Out of Plumb of Speech.

120 If this is “fading” Oh let me immediately “fade”! If this is “dying” Bury me, in such a shroud of red!

126 To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe—

A little Snow was here and there Disseminated in her Hair - Since she and I had met and playe… Decade had gathered to Decade - But Time had added not obtained

His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill. He laboreth at every tree,— A worm his utmost goal.

488 Myself was formed’—a Carpenter’— An unpretending time My Plane’—and I, together wrought Before a Builder came’—

March is the Month of Expectation… The things we do not know - The Persons of prognostication Are coming now - We try to show becoming firmness -

715 The World—feels Dusty When We stop to Die— We want the Dew—then— Honors—taste dry—

172 ’Tis so much joy! ’Tis so much jo… If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I, Have ventured all upon a throw!

165 A Wounded Deer—leaps highest— I’ve heard the Hunter tell— ’Tis but the Ecstasy of death— And then the Brake is still!

I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come,