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A Dated Popular-Science Medley on a Mysterious Light Recently Observed in the Western Sky at Evening My unexpected knocking at the door Started chairs thundering on the kitchen floor, Knives and forks ringing on the supper plates, Voices conflicting like…

Between two burrs on the mapWas a hollow-headed snake.The burrs were hills, the snake was a stream,And the hollow head was a lake. And the dot in front of a nameWas what should be a town.And there might be a…

Around bend after bend,It was blown woods and no end.I came to but one houseI made but the one friend. At the one house a child was outWho drew back at first in doubt,But spoke to me in a galeThat…

Four or five whippoorwills Have come down from their native ledge To the open country edge To give us a piece of their bills Two in June were a pair- You’d say sufficiently loud, But this was a family crowd,…

No, I had set no prohibiting sign,And yes, my land was hardly fenced.Nevertheless the land was mine.I was being trespassed on and against.Whoever the surly freedom tookOf such an unaccountable stayBusying by my woods and brookGave me strangely restless day.He…

I advocate a semi-revolution.The trouble with a total revolution (Ask any leputable Rosicrucian)Is that it brings the same class up on top. Executives of skillful executionWill therefore plan to go halfway and stop.Yes, revolutions are the only salves,But they’re one…

It is as true as Caesar’s name was Kaiser That no economist was ever wiser (Though prodigal himself and a despiser Of capital and calling thrift a miser). And when we get too far apart in wealth, “Twas his idea…

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

I love to toy with the Platonic notion That wisdom need not be of Athens Attic, But well may be Laconic, even Boeotian. At least I will not have it systematic.

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