So glad we are — a Stranger'd deem
'Twas sorry, that we were —
For where the Holiday should be
There publishes a Tear —
Nor how Ourselves be justified —
Since Grief and Joy are done
So similar — An Optizan
Could not decide between —
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So has a Daisy vanished
From the fields today —
So tiptoed many a slipper
To Paradise away —
Oozed so in crimson bubbles
Day's departing tide —
Blooming — tripping — flowing
Are ye then with God? -
So I pull my Stockings off
Wading in the Water
For the Disobedience' Sake
Boy that lived for "or'ter"
Went to Heaven perhaps at Death
And perhaps he didn't
Moses wasn't fairly used —
Ananias wasn't — -
So large my Will
The little that I may
Embarrasses
Like gentle infamy —
Affront to Him
For whom the Whole were small
Affront to me
Who know His Meed of all.
Earth at the best
Is but a scanty Toy —
Bought, carried Home
To Immortality...So much Summer
Me for showing
Illegitimate —
Would a Smile's minute bestowing
Too exorbitant
To the Lady
With the Guinea
Look — if She should know
Crumb of Mine
A Robin's Larder
Would suffice to stow —So proud she was to die
It made us all ashamed
That what we cherished, so unknown
To her desire seemed —
So satisfied to go
Where none of us should be
Immediately — that Anguish stooped
Almost to Jealousy —So the Eyes accost — and sunder
In an Audience —
Stamped — occasionally — forever —
So may Countenance
Entertain — without addressing
Countenance of One
In a Neighboring Horizon —
Gone — as soon as known —So well that I can live without —
I love thee — then How well is that?
As well as Jesus?
Prove it me
That He — loved Men —
As I — love thee —Softened by Time's consummate plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood's citadel
And undermined the years.
Bisected now, by bleaker griefs,
We envy the despair
That devastated childhood's realm,
So easy to repair.Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
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