I groped for him before I knew

With solemn nameless need

All other bounty sudden chaff

For this foreshadowed Food

Which others taste and spurn and sneer —

Though I within suppose

That consecrated it could be

The only Food that grows

I had a guinea golden —

I lost it in the sand —

And tho' the sum was simple

And pounds were in the land —

Still, had it such a value

Unto my frugal eye —

That when I could not find it —

I sat me down to sigh.


I had a crimson Robin —

Who sang full many a day...

I had no Cause to be awake —

My Best — was gone to sleep —

And Morn a new politeness took —

And failed to wake them up —


But called the others — clear —

And passed their Curtains by —

Sweet Morning — when I oversleep —

Knock — Recollect — to Me —


I looked at Sunrise —...

I had not minded — Walls —

Were Universe — one Rock —

And far I heard his silver Call

The other side the Block —


I'd tunnel — till my Groove

Pushed sudden thro' to his —

Then my face take her Recompense —

The looking in his Eyes —


But 'tis a single Hair —

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