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His Heart was darker than the starless night For that there is a morn But in this black Receptacle Can be no Bode of Dawn

His Cheek is his Biographer – As long as he can blush Perdition is Opprobrium – Past that, he sins in peace –

His Bill is clasped – his Eye forsook – His Feathers wilted low – The Claws that clung, like lifeless Gloves Indifferent hanging now – The Joy that in his happy Throat Was waiting to be poured Gored through and…

High from the earth I heard a bird; He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then he spied a breeze, And situated softly Upon a pile of wind Which in a perturbation Nature had left behind.…

Here, where the Daisies fit my Head ‘Tis easiest to lie And every Grass that plays outside Is sorry, some, for Me –

Her spirit rose to such a height Her countenance it did inflate Like one that fed on awe. More prudent to assault the dawn Than merit the ethereal scorn That effervesced from her.

Rare to the rare – Her sovreign People Nature knows as well And is as fond of signifying As if fallible –

Her Losses make our Gains ashamed. She bore Life’s empty Pack As gallantly as if the East Were swinging at her Back. Life’s empty Pack is heaviest, As every Porter knows – In vain to punish Honey – It only…

Her little Parasol to lift And once to let it down Her whole Responsibility – To imitate, be Mine – A Summer further I must wear, Content if Nature’s Drawer Present Me from sepulchral Crease As blemishless, as Her –

Her face was in a bed of hair, Like flowers in a plot – Her hand was whiter than the sperm That feeds the sacred light. Her tongue more tender than the tune That totters in the leaves – Who…