If I may have it, when it's dead,

I'll be contented — so —

If just as soon as Breath is out

It shall belong to me —


Until they lock it in the Grave,

'Tis Bliss I cannot weigh —

For tho' they lock Thee in the Grave,

Myself — can own the key —


Think of it Lover! I and...

If I should die,

And you should live —

And time should gurgle on —

And morn should beam —

And noon should burn —

As it has usual done —

If Birds should build as early

And Bees as bustling go —

One might depart at option

From enterprise below!

'Tis sweet to...

If I'm lost — now

That I was found —

Shall still my transport be —

That once — on me — those Jasper Gates

Blazed open — suddenly —


That in my awkward — gazing — face —

The Angels — softly peered —

And touched me with their fleeces,

Almost as if they cared —

I'm...

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If it is True What the Prophets write

That the heathen Gods are all stocks & stones

Shall we for the sake of being Polite

Feed them with the juice of our marrow bones
5And if Bezaleel &...