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XXIX THE nearest dream recedes, unreal… The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school—boy
’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away! ’Twas such a greedy, greedy wave
313 I should have been too glad, I se… Too lifted—for the scant degree Of Life’s penurious Round— My little Circuit would have sham…
How firm Eternity must look To crumbling men like me The only Adamant Estate In all Identity - How mighty to the insecure
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host
STEP lightly on this narrow spot… The broadest land that grows Is not so ample as the breast These emerald seams enclose. Step lofty; for this name is told
Luck is not chance It’s Toil Fortune’s expensive smile Is earned The Father of the Mine
594 The Battle fought between the Sou… And No Man—is the One Of all the Battles prevalent— By far the Greater One—
‘Faith’ is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see’— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
XII I ASKED no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled.
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
A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him,—did you not, His notice sudden is. The grass divides as with a comb,
514 Her smile was shaped like other sm… The Dimples ran along— And still it hurt you, as some Bi… Did hoist herself, to sing,
538 ’Tis true—They shut me in the Col… But then—Themselves were warm And could not know the feeling ’tw… Forget it—Lord—of Them—
575 “Heaven” has different Signs—to m… Sometimes, I think that Noon Is but a symbol of the Place— And when again, at Dawn,