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Show me Eternity, — and I will show you Memory – Both in one package lain And lifted back again – Be Sue, while I am Emily – Be next, what you have ever been, — Infinity –

She rose to His Requirement – dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife – If ought She missed in Her new Day, Of Amplitude, or Awe – Or first Prospective –…

She rose as high as His Occasion Then sought the Dust – And lower lay in low Westminster For Her brief Crest –

She laid her docile Crescent down And this confiding Stone Still states to Dates that have forgot The News that she is gone. So constant to it’s Stolid trust The Shaft that never knew – It shames the Constancy that…

She could not live upon the Past The Present did not know her And so she sought this sweet at last And nature gently owned her The mother that has not a Knell for either Duke or Robin

Shame is the shawl of Pink In which we wrap the Soul To keep it from infesting Eyes – The elemental Veil Which helpless Nature drops When pushed upon a scene Repugnant to her probity – Shame is the tint…

Shall I take thee, the Poet said To the propounded word? Be stationed with the Candidates Till I have finer tried – The Poet searched Philology And was about to ring For the suspended Candidate There came unsummoned in –…

September’s Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets – Crows – and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming – An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up it’s Fun – And turn Philosopher.

“Secrets” is a daily word Yet does not exist – Muffled – it remits surmise – Murmured – it has ceased – Dungeoned in the Human Breast Doubtless secrets lie – But that Grate inviolate – Goes nor comes away…

Satisfaction – is the Agent Of Satiety – Want – a quiet Commissary For Infinity. To possess, is past the instant We achieve the Joy – Immortality contented Were Anomaly.