Because that Junior Foliage is disrespectful now
To venerable Birds
Whose Corporation Coat
Would decorate Oblivion’s
Remotest Consulate.
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How the Hemlocks burn—How the Dun Brake is draped in CinderBy the Wizard Sun—How the old Steeples hand the ScarletTill the Ball is full—Have I the lip of the FlamingoThat I dare to tell?Then, how the Fire ebbs like Billows—Touching all the GrassWith a departing—Sapphire—feature—As a Duchess passed—How a small Dusk crawls on the VillageTill…
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Instead I’ll say of GemIn His long Absence wornA Costlier oneBut every Tear I boreWere He to count them o’erHis own would fall so moreI’ll mis sum them.
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Sailing silently,Ho! Pilot, ho!Knowest thou the shoreWhere no breakers roar—Where the storm is o’er?In the peaceful westMany the sails at rest—The anchors fast—Thither I pilot thee—Land Ho! Eternity!Ashore at last!