When I count the seeds

That are sown beneath,

To bloom so, bye and bye —

When I con the people

Lain so low,

To be received as high —

When I believe the garden

Mortal shall not see —
...

Poet:

When I have seen the Sun emerge

From His amazing House —

And leave a Day at every Door

A Deed, in every place —


Without the incident of Fame

Or accident of Noise —

The Earth has seemed to me a Drum,...

Poet:

When I hoped I feared —

Since I hoped I dared

Everywhere alone

As a Church remain —

Spectre cannot harm —

Serpent cannot charm —

He deposes Doom

Who hath suffered him —

Poet:

When I hoped, I recollect

Just the place I stood —

At a Window facing West —

Roughest Air — was good —


Not a Sleet could bite me —

Not a frost could cool —

Hope it was that kept me warm —
...

Poet:

 
* * *


When I see a Rubens Rembrant Correggio

I think of the Crippled Harry & Slobbering Joe

And then I question thus are artists rules

To be drawn from the works of two manifest fools
...

Poet:

When I was small, a Woman died —

Today — her Only Boy

Went up from the Potomac —

His face all Victory


To look at her — How slowly

The Seasons must have turned

Till Bullets clipt an Angle

...

Poet:

When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side,

When Katie runs unwearied they follow on the road,

When Katie kneels, their loving hands still clasp her pious knee —

Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, with two so knit to thee!

Poet:

If Blake could do this when he rose up from shite

What might he not do if he sat down to write[4]

Poet:

When Memory is full

Put on the perfect Lid —

This Morning's finest syllable

Presumptuous Evening said —

Poet:

When Night is almost done —

And Sunrise grows so near

That we can touch the Spaces —

It's time to smooth the Hair —


And get the Dimples ready —

And wonder we could care

For that old — faded Midnight...

Poet: