'You know Orion always comes up s
Throwing a leg up over our fence o
And rising on his hands, he looks
Busy outdoors by lantern-light wit
I should have done by daylight, an

THERE overtook me and drew me in
To his down-hill, early-morning st
And set me five miles on my road
Better than if he had had me ride,
A man with a swinging bag for load

As I came to the edge of the wood
Thrush music —hark!
Now if it was dusk outside,
Inside it was dark.
Too dark in the woods for a bird

It went many years,
But at last came a knock,
And I thought of the door
With no lock to lock.
I blew out the light,

I’ve tried the new moon tilted in
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cl
As you might try a jewel in your h
I’ve tried it fine with little bre
Alone, or in one ornament combinin

To Ridgely Torrence
On Last Looking into His 'Hesper
I often see flowers from a passing
That are gone before I can tell w
I want to get out of the train and

A voice said, Look me in the star
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth

Others taunt me with having knelt
Always wrong to the light, so neve
Deeper down in the well than where
Gives me back in a shining surface
Me myself in the summer heaven god

I’ve known ere now an interfering
Of alder catch my lifted axe behin
But that was in the woods, to hold
From striking at another alder’s r
And that was, as I say, an alder

An ant on the tablecloth
Ran into a dormant moth
Of many times his size.
He showed not the least surprise.
His business wasn’t with such.