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Empty my Heart, of Thee —
Its single Artery —
Begin, and leave Thee out —
Simply Extinction's Date —
Much Billow hath the Sea —
One Baltic — They —
Subtract Thyself, in play,
And not enough of me
Is left — to put away —
"Myself" meanth Thee —
...Endanger it, and the Demand
Of tickets for a sigh
Amazes the Humility
Of Credibility —
Recover it to Nature
And that dejected Fleet
Find Consternation's Carnival
Divested of its Meat.Ended, ere it begun —
The Title was scarcely told
When the Preface perished from Consciousness
The Story, unrevealed —
Had it been mine, to print!
Had it been yours, to read!
That it was not Our privilege
The interdict of God —Endow the Living — with the Tears —
You squander on the Dead,
And They were Men and Women — now,
Around Your Fireside —
Instead of Passive Creatures,
Denied the Cherishing
Till They — the Cherishing deny —
With Death's Ethereal Scorn —
English Encouragement of Art
[First reading]
If you mean to Please Every body you will
Set to work both Ignorance & skill
For a great multitude are Ignorant
And skill to them seems raving & ran
..."Hinc pallidorum longa morborum cohors
Turpisque egestas sequitur," &c.A draught from Helicon could once inspire
The bard to wing in song his loftiest flight;
But poets of these later times require
A draft from Wall Street, payable at sight.