Two Lengths has every Day —
Its absolute extent
And Area superior
By Hope or Horror lent —
Eternity will be
Velocity or Pause
At Fundamental Signals
From Fundamental Laws.
To die is not to go —
On Doom's consummate Chart
No Territory new is...
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
O God, the other one !
The stray ships passing spied a face
Upon the waters borne,
With eyes in death still begging raised,...
Two Travellers perishing in Snow
The Forests as they froze
Together heard them strengthening
Each other with the words
That Heaven if Heaven — must contain
What Either left behind
And then the cheer too solemn grew
For language, and the wind
Long steps across the...
It makes no difference abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The mornings blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame.
Wild-flowers kindle in the woods,
The brooks brag all the day ;
No blackbird bates his jargoning...
Two — were immortal twice —
The privilege of few —
Eternity — obtained — in Time —
Reversed Divinity —
That our ignoble Eyes
The quality conceive
Of Paradise superlative —
Through their Comparative.
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees; all times I have enjoy'd
...
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity —
Unable they that love — to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity.
Uncertain lease — develops lustre
On Time
Uncertain Grasp, appreciation
Of Sum —
The shorter Fate — is oftener the chiefest
Because
Inheritors upon a tenure
Prize —
My Uncle Bill! My Uncle Bill!
How doth my heart with anguish thrill!
For he, our chief, our Robin Hood,
Has gone to jail for stealing wood!
With tears and sobs my voice I raise
To celebrate my uncle's praise;
With all my strength, with all my skill,
I'll sing the song of Uncle Bill."
...
Solo.—
Sin’s rooster’s crowed, Ole Mahster’s riz,
De sleepin’-time is pas’;
Wake up dem lazy Baptissis,
Chorus.—
Dey’s mightily in de grass, grass,
Dey’s mightily in de grass.
Ole Mahster’s blowed de mornin’ horn,
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