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Like hindered rubies, or the light,A sudden musket spills.The purple could not keep the east.The sunrise shook from fold.Like breadths of topaz, packed a night,The lady just unrolled.The happy winds their timbrels took;The birds in docile rows,Arranged themselves around their prince.(The wind is prince of those.)The orchard sparkled like a Jew,—How mighty ’twas to stay,A…

Chase it, and it ceases—Chase it not, and it abides—Overtake the CreasesIn the Meadow—when the WindRuns his fingers thro’ it—Deity will see to itThat You never do it—

Are ignorant of its ConcernAs if it were not born.Through all their former Places, weLike Individuals goWho something lost, the seeking forIs all that’s left them, now—

When I go out of Time—To take my Rank—by—in the West—That face—will just be thine—I’ll hand it to the Angel—That—Sir—was my Degree—In Kingdoms—you have heard the Raised—Refer to—possibly.He’ll take it—scan it—step aside—Return—with such a crownAs Gabriel—never capered at—And beg me put it on—And then—he’ll turn me round and round—To an admiring sky—As one that bore…

Constancy with a ProvisoConstancy abhors –‘Crowns of Life’ are servile PrizesTo the stately Heart,Given for the Giving, solely,No Emolument.–‘Faithful to the end’ AmendedFrom the Heavenly clause –Lucrative indeed the offerBut the Heart withdraws –‘I will give’ the base Proviso –Spare Your ‘Crown of Life’ –Those it fits, too fair to wear it –Try it on…

So I keep bringing These—Just as the Night keeps fetching StarsTo our familiar eyes—Maybe, we shouldn’t mind them—Unless they didn’t come—Then—maybe, it would puzzle usTo find our way Home—