• Cocoon above! Cocoon below!

    Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so

    What all the world suspect?

    An hour, and gay on every tree

    Your secret, perched in ecstasy

    Defies imprisonment!


    An hour in Chrysalis to pass,

    Then gay above receding grass

    A Butterfly to go!

    A moment to...

  • Not so the infinite Relations — Below

    Division is Adhesion's forfeit — On High

    Affliction but a Speculation — And Woe

    A Fallacy, a Figment, We knew —

  • Who has not found the Heaven — below —

    Will fail of it above —

    For Angels rent the House next ours,

    Wherever we remove —