Two butterflies went out at Noon —

And waltzed upon a Farm —

Then stepped straight through the Firmament

And rested, on a Beam —


And then — together bore away

Upon a shining Sea —

Though never yet,...

Poet:

It was shearing time at the Myall Lake,

And then rose the sound through the livelong day

Of the constant clash that the shear-blades make

When the fastest shearers are making play;

But there wasn't a man in the shearers' lines...

Poet:

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.

...

Poet:

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...

Poet:

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...

Poet:

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...

Poet:

Uncertain lease — develops lustre

On Time

Uncertain Grasp, appreciation

Of Sum —


The shorter Fate — is oftener the chiefest

Because

Inheritors upon a tenure

Prize —

Poet:

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;
...

Poet:

Under the Light, yet under,

Under the Grass and the Dirt,

Under the Beetle's Cellar

Under the Clover's Root,


Further than Arm could stretch

Were it Giant long,

Further than Sunshine could
...

Poet:

This is the place where they all were bred;

Some of the rafters are standing still;

Now they are scattered and lost and dead,

Every one from the old nest fled,

Out of the shadow of Kiley's Hill.


Better it is...

Poet: