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84 Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a “Diver”— Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest.
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 -
‘Heavenly Father’ - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us - seems to us
766 My Faith is larger than the Hills… So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wh… To show the Sun the way—
513 Like Flowers, that heard the news… But never deemed the dripping priz… Awaited their—low Brows— Or Bees—that thought the Summer’s…
677 To be alive—is Power— Existence—in itself— Without a further function— Omnipotence—Enough—
811 The Veins of other Flowers The Scarlet Flowers are Till Nature leisure has for Terms As “Branch,” and “Jugular.”
958 We met as Sparks—Diverging Flint… Sent various—scattered ways— We parted as the Central Flint Were cloven with an Adze—
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
648 Promise This—When You be Dying— Some shall summon Me— Mine belong Your latest Sighing— Mine—to Belt Your Eye—
774 It is a lonesome Glee— Yet sanctifies the Mind— With fair association— Afar upon the Wind
383 Exhiliration—is within— There can no Outer Wine So royally intoxicate As that diviner Brand
193 I shall know why—when Time is ove… And I have ceased to wonder why— Christ will explain each separate… In the fair schoolroom of the sky—
273 He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up—
59 A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard—