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 Part I. (I'kom .Si-.a-IMl-.sic.) 
 
 Oi'i' Norway. 
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 Tack, 
 
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 vSlvA-SlIINK. 
 
 
 Part II. 
 
 ( Prom ICarth-Song. 
 
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 Sxow. 
 
 
 liAM) Ruck. 
 
 
 Part III. 
 
 (I'K(JM WcjOU-NoTl'S.) 
 
 Outing. 
 
 
 Part IV. 
 
 (From Winjj-Voices.) 
 
 Selections. 
 
 
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 III. 
 
 
 Part V. 
 
 (From Fire-Tones.) 
 
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 OFF NORWAY,— '89. 
 
 W'itli :i "Skoal ! " iiiul loiit^- bout 
 
 Tlie white vikiiiir ])liglits ])linuler 
 
 To llic orient Odin wlio hirtles on higli ; 
 
 And the nialilstroni and si)ont 
 
 Dare tlieir skill, or their blunder, 
 
 Wh(j so brawnily do, and so bra\ely will die. 
 
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 So they fly with the rout 
 
 -\nd twin souls ^o asunder ; 
 And from pole unto pole rings a lyric wild erv, 
 That is met witii a shout 
 
 Of the world's idh^ wonder 
 
 At lier locks of spun gold, and forget-me-not eye. 
 
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 And the white-caps are out, 
 
 And the deep sea rolls urider; 
 And whitel}- the storm-risen cloud hurries by. 
 Faith harbingers doul)t 
 
 Just as lightning, then thunder; 
 Till, at last, a wide ocean embosom the sky. 
 
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 Saints, what a night ! 
 
 No light 
 
 Is out. and the wind is the cr}- 
 
 Of a lost soul's wild unagou}-; 
 
 First a shriek and a howl, 
 
 Then a wail and a sigh, 
 
 Where despair sits night long, X^ 
 
 And the angels' hopes die. 
 
 How the waves prowl 
 
 To and fro along the shore, 
 
 And show their fangs, 
 
 And ramp and roar, 
 
 Like lions hishing their sides in furv ! — 
 
 And our pain will live on. 
 
 Spite of judge, orof jur-^;. 
 
 Tlirougli a double-barred v.indow, 
 
 Or chink of the door, 
 
 The wild strife will come in; 
 
 But the spirit will soar. 
 
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 Tlirougli a lull comes the din 
 Of the cleiiieiits' play ; 
 Then a white flash and tiiunder ; 
 And, small room for wonder, 
 I sluit myself in ; 
 '^ For away at the eaves, 
 Where the murky air grieves 
 While I dream as 1 nod, — 
 At the dip of the roof 
 I can hold me aloof 
 For an hour with God. 
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 There's the foam in our teeth 
 And the surge at our breast ; 
 But away in the lea 
 With a calm undernentli. 
 Comes the sigli and the boom 
 Of the tearful, salt sea 
 Over Canso— at rest. 
 
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 From many a tinkling fount and gurl}' well 
 
 Atune to voices of a summer da}-, 
 Down bosky gorge, through fret-worn, fern-fringed dell, 
 
 Past dapple meadows lush with new-mown lia}^, 
 To where the mystic cloud-springs e'er abide 
 In deeps of ocean, shrinks the moaning tide. 
 
 And mark the brine-writ ruin of aQ:es vorc 
 
 Where foaming billows creep along the beach. 
 But e'er receding thence a lower reach 
 
 Will ebb, and flow, to ebb — for-ever-more. 
 
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 vSo, weary of the full, bespent, alone. 
 Goes out th}^ soul into the vast unknown; 
 Yet well I ween the wave that comes no more 
 Breaks in a sea without or sound, or shore. 
 
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 SEA-SHINE. 
 
 A man may see 
 
 Witliiii the mute face 
 
 Of a willow pool 
 
 A thing 
 
 In vain he looks for 
 
 On a ruffled bosom 
 
 Of the unplumbed sea; 
 
 Behold, and go his wa}-, 
 
 And soon forget 
 
 The manner of a man he was, 
 
 The kind of fool. 
 
 Not thus to-day 
 
 The sea sends 
 
 Back 
 
 An obsequious shadow of our very own; 
 
 Nor lends, 
 
 A whit we lack. 
 
 Nor ends 
 
 Upon the ke^^-note of a monotone 
 
 The fugue her sirens play. 
 
 Where bar-bells toll. 
 
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 As face to face, 
 But soul to soul. 
 
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 And when, after the strife. 
 
 Great peace comes down upon the troubled sca,- 
 After the wildered waking 
 That we call our life, 
 A sleep on all and me,— 
 Shall we then gazing in each other's eyes^ 
 Find out the secret of our mute surprise ?— 
 The sigh and boom of the eternal sea 
 An ecstasy of life-song to the free ? 
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 Bone of my bone, thou willow ; 
 And flesh of my flesh, thou pool ; 
 And heart of my heart, thou 
 Tideful, throbbing sea ; 
 But abys'^ of 2eps and the ages. 
 
 Thou infinite, soul of my soul. 
 
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 Tlie fact is here ; 
 
 And, can'st thou see, 
 
 Illusion never comes if wanted ; 
 
 As sure to wise men as to fools 
 
 AVho raise a ghost to lay their ghouls, 
 
 Of life, and death, and lethe vaunted ; 
 
 For, pant' St thou free. 
 
 The goal is near. 
 
 LYRIC. 
 
 'Tis often said 
 
 The gods are dead ; 
 
 Then let us here enshrine the Muse 
 
 That floats and falls 
 
 Through these proud Halls, 
 
 And with sweet song our soul imbues. 
 
 
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 SNOW. 
 
 A light suow 
 Wliitely veils the grave 
 ( )f our hue hal{-bk)vvu hope 
 .\iid half-done deed, 
 T^vill dead whose life 
 W^e oa\e to fate. 
 
 And, so, 
 We are nierr}-, or mourn, 
 Die early, are l)orn 
 Late. 
 
 Wliile, O 
 Sweet bridal P^arth, thy heart 
 Beats warm below ; 
 And thy wide arms 
 Await nic ; 
 
 And 1 own thy charms, 
 My queen of art, 
 Till the amaranth blow. 
 
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 BALD ROCK. 
 
 A morning snn aslant npon Bald Rock. 
 
 And, as the drovv'sy waves, too, ronse 
 
 To a thrill of his warm kiss, 
 
 They coil with a hiss, 
 
 Aronnd their charmer's gannt 
 
 Form white with age. 
 
 Shock upon shock 
 
 With gathering rage. 
 
 Their green folds tonched with fire ; 
 
 Until, with many a crnnch, and smear of slime. 
 
 Your Peter owns the irony of time. 
 
 And so, men deem. 
 All shapes of thee and thine. 
 But breathed on by a cold, gray dream 
 That rises from th' eternal sea, 
 Go down to bed more deeply in the brine. 
 
 While, through the din 
 Of foes that wrestle and of fates that win, 
 ^ly one aim is to find without 
 A god that I find everywhere within. 
 
 
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 The days wane ; 
 Till now, in woodland ways, 
 The dew lies on till noon ; 
 And the hills are a-bhize 
 With a flush and swoon 
 ()f carnation stain. 
 
 At deep 
 
 Of night I've heard 
 
 Throngh sleep 
 
 The music and sweep 
 
 Of a southing bird. 
 
 One call 
 
 And an answer, 
 
 The answer a call ; 
 
 And I, though a man, sir, 
 
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 Now, w luit is true 
 ( )f a maze 
 With a elew, 
 But — the maze ? 
 
 For, autumn, how 
 \\'ould 1 chide thy iits 
 or summer shine 
 Through leafless sj^raN'S ; 
 But a song-bird sits 
 On the budding bough. 
 And wakes the fays 
 With a note divine. 
 
 And the buds will burst 
 At a thrill of vSpring ; 
 And the birds come back ; 
 And the woods shall ring 
 With a matin song 
 From over sea. 
 
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 Not thou to me. 
 
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 And gcni-SL't, and night-fall of dew ; 
 
 Niglit-silcnce flecked with sound 
 
 Of gentle stir within no fold ; 
 
 And, o'er the nntrod wold, 
 
 The whirring of white wings 
 
 That brood above the night; 
 
 And the wide wonder. 
 
 But not wish, of holy things. 
 
 A soft wind blowetli 
 
 Where it listeth 
 
 To no sound ; 
 
 No one knoweth 
 
 Aught persisteth 
 
 In this round ; 
 
 Though, I trow, 
 
 The all-one goetli 
 
 Where thy sootli-fast, soft wind bloweth. 
 

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 O wind-god, fleet-winged god, 
 
 Ere the old, old ways be trod 
 
 Thro' the vale beneath the daisies o'er the dead 
 
 How tliou flut'st memorial lays 
 
 Of the coming, coming days 
 
 When these waving, wild farewells 
 
 Have all been said. 
 
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 A breath of Dawn 
 
 That deploys with the Sun; 
 
 But is come and gone 
 
 Ere day is won 
 
 To hearts that are sore, 
 
 And eyes that weep 
 
 Over joys no more. 
 
 And care a-sleep. 
 
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 Hies liirtling through the open plain 
 
 Unmarred by Moses and the bleaching bones, 
 
 A dust, 
 
 The foul rust 
 
 Of the ages, fills the chinks 
 
 And yawning niches 
 
 Of the Pantheon ; or quits the level 
 
 Of the main 
 
 For Brocken Witches 
 
 And the Devil ; 
 
 Till, whirling in wide flight 
 
 It falls in side-long wind-rows 
 
 Down the unscarred brow 
 
 And brawu}' breast of Sphinx. 
 
 Oh wind-god, fleet-v/inged god, 
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 For I am child kin witli coiisuiiiing fire ; 
 And iairer than the sons of Setli by grief, 
 Fore-fatherd ])y an older sire ; 
 And wiser than the wise who weep 
 Our woes and fall a-sleep. 
 
 I haunt the dream-room in the house of song ; 
 And brighter than a pale cast of your Plato's brow, 
 The elf-light dances doomily around me now. 
 
 Powers my fate opposes; fuel, rack and blazes, 
 ^ind, your polar ice and breezes, 
 Feed the flame and fan it 
 As it rises round my pyre. 
 
 —Night 
 To your cycling, ample, astral age ! 
 But on its front is writ a fiery rune ; 
 A soul of man burns through the prison cage 
 That pens in every singing son of light. 
 
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 AXHiv then, from hour to hour, 
 Thus weave thy spell 
 Around ni\- heart ; 
 When, from this boAver 
 O'er shrined with passion-floweTS adew, 
 We part ? 
 
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 How blind to foes ; 
 
 How numb 
 
 With pain ; how in a dumb 
 
 Revolt I wait 
 
 The holy hour 
 
 Wlien from this tower 
 
 Peals fr- Ji a knell 
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 Up in flame and down to ashes 
 
 Went brave things in daj-s of old, 
 
 Breathing out 'mid lurid flashes, 
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 Heart of creeds of endless aeons, 
 
 Teach me all the witting dower, 
 
 That can dirges turn to pseans, 
 
 Flesh to soul, and will to power. 
 
 !N"ever shall their praises ringing 
 Fail and perish to a name ; 
 
 For a poet sends them singing 
 Down to ashes, up in flame. 
 
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 Only to breathe the magic of tliy name ! 
 
 Only to hear the music of thy voice ! 
 
 Only to feel the fire of passion-flame 
 
 Bnrn high to know my love doth list my choice. 
 
 Only to touch thy warm relenting palm, 
 Thine out-post and thy artless lover's norm, 
 And feel mv rising soul grow fiercely calm, 
 Vs fury that in-dwells the rising storm ! 
 
 Only to roam like spirits through the l)rake 
 Unto some sunlit bower in the wood ! 
 Only to twine like lilies in the lake ! 
 Only to fill the measure of our mood ! 
 
 Only to feel thy warm limbs pulse with mine ! 
 Only to drink thy sweet life at thy lips ! 
 Only to feel my blood run warm like twine ! 
 Only a swoon of bliss to finger-tips. 
 
 
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 Then just to gaze in dewy eyes of blue ! 
 Then just to toy and dally with thy hair ! 
 Then just to clip Elysium anew ! 
 Seek love in thee and find it— everywhere ! 
 
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 The frailest life that flits athwart the sod 
 Up-drawn today and dreams by sacred fire, 
 Doth show me how, belike, the will of god 
 Is this intense, untold, divine, desire. 
 
 For, though love's faintest germ bestir thy soul, 
 It doth my every surging wish intone ; 
 And sure as lightning to th' eternal pole 
 True love meets love along the nooning zone. 
 
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 After an ample ceoii 
 Of bugle, aiithem,pcieaii, 
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 Low muffled drum, 
 And bird-notes o'er tlie wild. 
 What of the lively stone ? — 
 The fountain of all youth ? — 
 The utter Jews' gentility ? — 
 The avatar of truth ? 
 
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 For unborn 
 Fools of the here 
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 The gilded future, 
 
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 In this all joy's remembered, 
 
 And all pain forgot ; 
 
 In that the sweet's eter^ial; 
 
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 The die is cast, 
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 While he last. 
 
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 Here's a blend for your shield: — 
 
 The dead moon 
 
 Whirls a weirdly roundel 
 
 To the reeling Earth, 
 
 Out setting to the void ; 
 
 And, in the latest sun. 
 
 The same one end of all begun 
 
 The death in birth. 
 
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 Of the frozen breath ; 
 The last wild note 
 Of the vanishing bird, 
 To the last laid ghoul 
 Of a banishing herd. 
 
 For in this late abyss of deeps 
 Where cloyed love lies 
 Where wan thought sleeps, 
 The never wise 
 Is he who weeps 
 The death of Death. 
 
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 A rune of un-sung life-song 
 
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 Like a bird, 
 Should hover o'er the urn 
 Wherein were seal'd 
 The power 
 That would never yield 
 To fate :— 
 As if a note 
 F'roni one fair throat 
 Could wake the ashes. 
 And. east out the mote. 
 
 And when this fulsome pent-house broken lies, 
 No more; the bird, too, flies, — 
 No ruth, — 
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 Come purple flowers 
 
 From tlie blood-sown earth. 
 
 For, lo, a frozen breath 
 
 Bedews the dust 
 
 AV^here moth and rust, 
 
 At beck of death, 
 
 Held Carnival ; 
 
 Till, from the sod 
 Too vital now with lust 
 
 Of Parsifal, 
 Anemones reveal the God. 
 
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 M}^ soul doth wait return ; 
 The while my heart doth burn 
 
 To know — 
 My dust shall spring in daisies, 
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 ^I:r soul brooks all delay. No fear, or lure, 
 Can pinion the divine of this one thing 
 I do. Let thunder roll, or joy-bells ring ; 
 It boots not, when all vauntings meet the sure 
 Cloud-piercing glance of one clear eye. Immure 
 
 Thee, hence ! nor liaunt me ; for no power can bring- 
 To naught my urgent fancy while I sing- 
 One theme of thee, sweet thought, that shall endure. 
 
 Here, breathless rapture where no wild birds throng. 
 
 To trill emancipation from all dream ; 
 
 And there's a holy hush that tells the air 
 Till burst a clarion o'er a low despair. 
 
 Then pause, and loom, and swing, dear worlds, 3'e teem 
 
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 O'er which my viewless thought cloth softly wing? 
 
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 If but the bird within my heart doth sing ? 
 
 O Raphael ! who mourn 
 
 Thee gone from time and sense to rayless night ; 
 
 Could the}^ but see new-born 
 
 As I do now, in the sweet-limning might 
 
 Of an eternal May ; 
 
 With me in uplift out of time and ruth, 
 
 Wide-eyed in dateless day. 
 
 Should find thee deathless in the round of truth. 
 
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 How in this moiliny^ North 
 
 Where polar ices cliill tlie heart of June, 
 
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 'Tis first a cry 
 
 And, then, the tonal key ; 
 
 As first the thing 1 see, 
 
 And tiien my eye. 
 
 Or M'hcn you laugh, 
 
 And up or down a minor third ; 
 
 As if \-ou reached expression, 
 
 And fell sliort b}- half. 
 
 And so your bird 
 
 Keels, as I sometimes think, in a minor key. 
 
 For, if one touch the major truth. 
 
 He tells too much, me-thinks. 
 
 By more than half, as a bell clinks. 
 
 Again, \-our fly chromatics : 
 
 Rush, ripple, and rumble, — 
 
 No blunder, — 
 
 ]-*earls, opals and diamonds : 
 
 vSome nice acrobatics 
 
 In lightning and thunder. 
 
 But oh ! The fine speech, that pours in upon me 
 
 Through 3'our enharmonic doing, 
 
 Bars all song. 
 
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 "I don't know liow to flirt*' she sighed ; 
 
 And turned a ])eerless head to hide 
 
 A rising- hlnsli ; " sneh. fine art wants 
 
 A hand it finds in other hannts 
 
 Then these, white-blown of time and tide." 
 
 '' Bnt teach me ; and, when I ha\'e tried 
 My hand on thee, I'll throw aside 
 My fear, nor falter to thy tannts 
 
 " I don't know how to flirt." 
 
 And snch the pow'r we like the wide 
 A7orld throngh ; for gnileless arts abide 
 Av'lien fail the wih s a woman vannts 
 Before a man that nothing dannts, — 
 Till twin eyes twinkle, thongh lips chide, 
 
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 " When lilies blow, we'll meet again." 
 I v.'ould they Avere the rose ; for then 
 I'd choose the red and leave the white 
 To blush a crimson at thy sipdit 
 Who'd'st brave a lion in his den. 
 
 For thongh one fare o'er fell and fen 
 For thee, and stake both brains and pen. 
 His love must prove its own sheer might 
 
 Wlien lilies blow 
 
 Ah, woman, far above tliy ken 
 I've pawned for one the precepts ten ; 
 So, when the clouds go high and light. 
 Come, if thou M-ilt, in lilies dight 
 To foil thy blush-red choice of men — 
 
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 A note to meet ! Ah, so have I; 
 But thine's for gold, and mine for pi ; 
 Plain duty binds thee, and the note ; 
 And both remind me that a vote 
 Of all the gods is— Do, or die. 
 
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 To make ends meet ; nor fathoms why 
 No man ou eartli to me may quote 
 
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 While thou wilt strive, though I but cry 
 In airs Titanic and remote ; 
 But, but if our paper we would float. 
 Let's take to wings ; for poets fly— 
 
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 Stay me the hour ! I'd measure out again 
 
 Its fluctuant wealth of passion, pain, its strong 
 Up-striving, un-attained desire, and wrong 
 
 Emprise above the reach of voice or pen ; 
 
 Ay, in the capture, thou wilt find for men 
 The secret of the singer, and tlie long, 
 Deep dreams of waking bliss that beggar song. 
 
 The rapture far above all human ken. 
 
 Thus life cries out upon this lonely shore 
 
 AVhere the fleet hours glide by with liectic glow 
 And hollow eyes, and vanish— where the snow 
 
 Lies vdiitely in the azure, quiet Nore ; 
 
 And so, love triumphs still o'er time and woe, 
 And towers ageless here for-ever-more, 
 
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 As impatient tlic words of all wise men I scan, 
 And thrice tnrn all tlieir meaning and mystery o'er, 
 What a cordial I find for the licart of a man 
 Who will ponder in silence their tomes of old lore, 
 And nnveil to himself all the maeic of vore 
 That transfignres to good all that comes soon, or late ; 
 That makes better of worse, raid the less seem the more, 
 Vnd assnres "iVU things come nnto him v/ho will wait ! 
 
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 Of the priests or the laymen who feed on lier store; 
 And she walks in the fire; and she plieth a fan. 
 And the chaff licth white on the wide garner floor 
 As the hnsk of the seed that 1 bring; in the core 
 Is the germ of all fact, or illnsion ; the date 
 And the norm, and the term of the infinite; more 
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 Last I come unto faith, a one light in the van ; 
 
 And to art, her shekinah, libations I poiir 
 
 'Mid the lyre-notes of Orphens, and pipings of Pan; 
 
 While the slaves at the rear, and the free in the fore, 
 
 God-like forms crowned with yontli, and old age bent and hoar. 
 
 Feel the rapture of being pulses all small and great ;— 
 
 As the guerdon of all who will mine the rich ore 
 
 And believe " All tilings come unto him who will wait/' 
 
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 Then to waifs on life's sea, and to strays on her shore : 
 
 Is it death comes alone as the goal of all fate ? 
 
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 I am the lig-lit of nn e^-e of the fire, 
 
 1 am the pall of the moons all a-wane; 
 i am the warp of the Earth's arch desire, 
 
 I am the woof of a heaven's disdain; 
 I am a force in phenomenal round, 
 
 And the power at stay in the noumenal sun; 
 I am the stars, and the pathless unbound 
 
 Of the azure they blazon when day is undone. 
 
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 I am the breath on the lips of the morn, 
 
 I am the wing of the weary simoom; 
 I. am the wind of all Eden's wide bourn, 
 
 I am the unfrozen breath of all doom; 
 I am the hush of the rathest blue dawn, 
 
 x\nd the song in the heart of the silence abroad, 
 I am the worth of a p(K't in pawn 
 
 To the want of a pitiful, blundering God. 
 
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 I am the inotlier of all that can be, 
 
 I am the child of primordial seed ; 
 I am the loins of the I that am he, 
 
 I am the doer as well as the deed ; 
 When the earth stirs from her trammel and trance 
 To a thrill that aronses the Wyrd of the spring, 
 I am the warmth of the snn's burning glance, 
 
 And the bride, and the bans, and the book, and the ring. 
 
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 I am the mirth in the rills of the Ma}^, 
 
 I am the billows that beat on the shore ; 
 I am the here and now, shrine of the fay 
 
 That can lurk in a pearl of ephemeral frore ; 
 I am a waif and the tireless wave 
 
 As it comes from the deep to disport in the shoals ; 
 I am a stray where no sea-fallows rave, 
 
 And all currents that flow, and the pole of all poles. 
 
 
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 I am tlie atoms in leasli to Uic one, 
 
 I am a leash of tlic atoms in thrall ; 
 I a.m the wit of a will nii-ljej^aiii, 
 
 I am the will of a wit of the all : 
 T am the life of the eosmieal germ, 
 
 And the formnla rapt in the absolute naught; 
 I am th(^ \\[{y of the norm, and the term 
 
 (H the infinite \\( 1< of rii infinite th.onght. 
 
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 I am a th(<ngl-it that lies mule in the brain, 
 
 And the thing that eries ont in the heart all day long; 
 I am an I time and spaee eannc^t chain, 
 
 The Sliehinah (;f Art, and the solace of som 
 I am the false; ay, v-nv I am th.e true; 
 
 I am the spirit that bre-ods in tlic still ; 
 1 am a v/ish, and the fetters ! woo; 
 
 .1 am an epi-phenomenal will. 
 
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 Against the sun ? 
 
 And the world's end 
 
 Where earth and blue sk3' meet ? 
 
 Ten chances are to one 
 
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 To where bend 
 
 The heavens to a hill. 
 
 Or, if I dare 
 
 What no men tr\' 
 
 In ways of air, 
 
 The winds go b}', 
 
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 Between this pent-house of the dirge, 
 
 Of all good"b3'e. 
 
 And that sweet outmost marge 
 
 Witliout a verge ; — 
 
 Then top the whitest peak 
 
 Of wide renown 
 
 And all you seek, 
 
 Till tin' wide view 
 
 Reach a full orb down 
 
 The irid round 
 
 Of dun, pied earth 
 
 And sapphire sea : — 
 
 Who not till then lia\c found 
 
 What long leagues lie, 
 
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 For then one heard, 
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 While deaf men nod ; 
 Thy son-j; .and thon, perehanee, 
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 Red, red ! Kro tiic d:v,- is dc:ul, 
 Sink tlic ;nui's wear}- limbs 
 
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 Red, iT-d ! Kre \hv last Hush is Red 
 Kise llic Earth's e\eniiig- hyLuus 
 
 Of her iiiyster}- bred. 
 
 White, Mdiite ! In the moon's wan light 
 Fall the stars tiny rays 
 
 On the frost and the hlifht. 
 White, white ! In a swift, breatliless ilight 
 Hies m a soul through tlie liaze 
 
 To the hush of the nio-jit. 
 
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 Have eauglit the deep tone 
 
 Of ceruleavi hue. 
 Blue, blue ! All the wear\' to woo 
 Falls tlie midnight full-blo\\-n 
 
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 vO deep of si:}', 'tis tlioii n.lone art l>::nniflless : 
 "C'lH thou alone art free of time's enthrall ; 
 Thou art a fathomless, untidcd, soundless ; 
 T^hou art the one tliat swallovv'S up our all. 
 
 Down til}' blue steeps what sure abide of reaches, 
 Where hope and love their wings may never tire! 
 The blazon of tli}^ stars a lesson teaches, 
 That fares beyond our measure of desire. 
 
 
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 T'lie finite of an infinite un-tliouo'ht ; 
 Thou art a vision of the Earth's un-sceing ; 
 The faitli of everv Vv'earv no'lit un-faucrht. 
 
 Thou art a hush whereon I la}'- a rhythm 
 Of music that can find no ample rhyme. 
 
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