• Best Things dwell out of Sight

    The Pearl — the Just — Our Thought.


    Most shun the Public Air

    Legitimate, and Rare —


    The Capsule of the Wind

    The Capsule of the Mind


    Exhibit here, as doth a Burr —

    Germ's Germ be where?

  • Could that sweet Darkness where they dwell

    Be once disclosed to us

    The clamor for their loveliness

    Would burst the Loneliness —

  • I dwell in Possibility —

    A fairer House than Prose —

    More numerous of Windows —

    Superior — for Doors —


    Of Chambers as the Cedars —

    Impregnable of Eye —

    And for an Everlasting Roof

    The Gambrels of the Sky —


    Of Visitors — the fairest —

    For Occupation — This...