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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!
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—
To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
569 I reckon—when I count it all— First—Poets—Then the Sun— Then Summer—Then the Heaven of G… And then—the List is done—
I cannot live with You— It would be Life— And Life is over there— Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to—
174 At last, to be identified! At last, the lamps upon thy side The rest of Life to see! Past Midnight! Past the Morning…
655 Without this—there is nought— All other Riches be As is the Twitter of a Bird— Heard opposite the Sea—
887 We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer— Till it an Antique fashion shows— Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
587 Empty my Heart, of Thee— Its single Artery— Begin, and leave Thee out— Simply Extinction’s Date—
XV I know some lonely houses off the… A robber ’d like the look of,— Wooden barred, And windows hanging low,
My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— In Corners—till a Day The Owner passed—identified— And carried Me away— And now We roam in Sovereign Woo…
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew,
667 Bloom upon the Mountain’—stated’— Blameless of a Name’— Efflorescence of a Sunset’— Reproduced’—the same’—
21 We lose’—because we win’— Gamblers’—recollecting which Toss their dice again!