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You left me – Sire – two Legacies – A Legacy of Love A Heavenly Father would suffice Had He the offer of – You left me Boundaries of Pain – Capacious as the Sea – Between Eternity and Time…

You know that Portrait in the Moon – So tell me who ’tis like – The very Brow – the stooping eyes – A fog for – Say – Whose Sake? The very Pattern of the Cheek – It varies…

You constituted Time – I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself – ‘Twas therefore Deity The Absolute – removed The Relative away – That I unto Himself adjust My slow idolatry –

You Cannot take itself From any Human soul – That indestructible estate Enable him to dwell – Impregnable as Light That every man behold But take away as difficult As undiscovered Gold –

You cannot put a Fire out – A Thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a Fan – Upon the slowest Night – You cannot fold a Flood – And put it in a Drawer – Because the Winds…

You cannot make Remembrance grow When it has lost its Root – The tightening the Soil around And setting it upright Deceives perhaps the Universe But not retrieves the Plant – Real Memory, like Cedar Feet Is shod with Adamant…

Yesterday is History, ‘Tis so far away – Yesterday is Poetry – ‘Tis Philosophy – Yesterday is mystery – Where it is Today While we shrewdly speculate Flutter both away

Whose stanza, hushed, below – Breaks in victorious Carol – Inaudible – indeed – To us – the duller Cornets Of the mysterious “Band” –

To lose thee – sweeter than to gain All other hearts I knew. ‘Tis true the drought is destitute, But then, I had the dew! The Caspian has it’s realms of sand, It’s other realm of sea. Without the sterile…