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Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
I cannot live with You— It would be Life— And Life is over there— Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to—
I know a place where summer strive… With such a practised frost, She each year leads her daisies ba… Recording briefly, ‘Lost.’ But when the south wind stirs the…
377 To lose one’s faith—surpass The loss of an Estate— Because Estates can be Replenished—faith cannot—
934 That is solemn we have ended Be it but a Play Or a Glee among the Garret Or a Holiday
890 From Us She wandered now a Year, Her tarrying, unknown, If Wilderness prevent her feet Or that Ethereal Zone
929 How far is it to Heaven? As far as Death this way— Of River or of Ridge beyond Was no discovery.
836 Truth — is as old as God — His Twin identity And will endure as long as He A Co-Eternity —
To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise
I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next
270 One Life of so much Consequence! Yet I—for it—would pay— My Soul’s entire income— In ceaseless—salary—
298 Alone, I cannot be— For Hosts—do visit me— Recordless Company— Who baffle Key—
587 Empty my Heart, of Thee— Its single Artery— Begin, and leave Thee out— Simply Extinction’s Date—
528 Mine—by the Right of the White E… Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the sign in the Scarlet p… Bars—cannot conceal!
The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature’s fact. But witness for her land,