Pursuing you in your transitions,
In other Motes —
Of other Myths
Your requisition be.
The Prism never held the Hues,
It only heard them play —
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I.
ON the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On...I like a look of agony
Because I know it 's true ;
Men do not sham convulsion,
Nor simulate a throe.
The eyes gaze once, and that is death.
Impossible to feign
The beads upon the forehead
By homely anguish...Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!
Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness —
Blush, my unacknowledged clay —
Seven years of troth have taught thee
More than Wifehood every may!
Love that never...Recollect the Face of me
When in thy Felicity,
Due in Paradise today
Guest of mine assuredly —
Other Courtesies have been —
Other Courtesy may be —
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry.
Soon as the gilded clouds of evening fly,
And Luna lights her taper in the sky,
The silent thought inspiring solemn scene
Awakes my soul to all that it has been.
I was the parent of the softest fair
Who ere respir'd in wide Columbia's air;
A transient glance of her love beaming eyes
...So, the bank has bust it's boiler! And in six or seven year
It will pay me all my money back -- of course!
But the horse will perish waiting while the grass is germinating,
And I reckon I'll be domething like the horse.
There's the ploughing to be finished and the ploughmen want their pay,
And I'd like to wire...Into the wood - the dark, dark wood -
Forth went the happy child;
And, in its stillest solitude,
Talked to herself, and smiled;
And closer drew the scarlet Hood
About her ringlets wild.
And now at last she threads the maze,
And now she need not fear;
Frowning, she meets the...