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59 A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard—
819 All I may, if small, Do it not display Larger for the Totalness— ’Tis Economy
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
284 The Drop, that wrestles in the Se… Forgets her own locality— As I—toward Thee— She knows herself an incense small…
645 Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen— A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs—between—
She could not live upon the Past The Present did not know her And so she sought this sweet at la… And nature gently owned her The mother that has not a knell
34 Garland for Queens, may be— Laurels—for rare degree Of soul or sword. Ah—but remembering me—
His Heart was darker than the sta… For that there is a morn But in this black Receptacle Can be no Bode of Dawn
Glory is that bright tragic thing That for an instant Means Dominion - Warms some poor name That never felt the Sun,
XLIX WE outgrow love like other things And put it in the drawer, Till it an antique fashion shows Like costumes grandsires wore.
933 Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words
An Antiquated Tree Is cherished of the Crow Because that Junior Foliage is di… To venerable Birds Whose Corporation Coat
The Hills erect their Purple Hea… The Rivers lean to see Yet Man has not of all the Throng A Curiosity.
124 In lands I never saw—they say Immortal Alps look down— Whose Bonnets touch the firmament… Whose Sandals touch the town—
206 The Flower must not blame the Bee… That seeketh his felicity Too often at her door— But teach the Footman from Vevay—