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Because—Thee—Sweet plea—He pardoned me!

For an Eternity—I fear me this CircumferenceEngross my Finity—To His exclusion, who prepareBy Processes of SizeFor the Stupendous VisionOf his diameters—

The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his civility.We passed the school where children played,Their lessons scarcely done;We passed the fields of gazing grain,We passed the setting sun.We paused before a house that seemedA swelling of the ground;The roof was…

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…

Though She forget the name I bear—The fashion of the Gown I wear—The very Color of My Hair—So like the Meadows—now—I dared to show a Tress of TheirsIf haply—She might not despiseA Buttercup’s Array—I know the Whole—obscures the Part—The fraction—that appeased the HeartTill Number’s Empery—Remembered—as the Millner’s flowerWhen Summer’s Everlasting Dower—Confronts the dazzled Bee.

Meek my Vive le roi,Fold a tiny courtierIn thine Ermine, Sir,There to rest reveringTill the pageant by,I can murmur broken,Master, It was I—