Not seeing, still we know —
Not knowing, guess —
Not guessing, smile and hide
And half caress —
And quake — and turn away,
Seraphic fear —
Is Eden's innuendo
"If you dare"?
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Not Sickness stains the Brave,
Nor any Dart,
Nor Doubt of Scene to come,
But an adjourning Heart — -
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 — -
Not that he goes — we love him more
Who led us while he stayed.
Beyond earth's trafficking frontier,
For what he moved, he made. -
Not that We did, shall be the test
When Act and Will are done
But what Our Lord infers We would
Had We diviner been — -
Not to discover weakness is
The Artifice of strength —
Impregnability inheres
As much through Consciousness
Of faith of others in itself
As Pyramidal Nerve
Behind the most unconscious clock
What skilful Pointers move — -
Not with a Club, the Heart is broken
Nor with a Stone —
A Whip so small you could not see it
I've known
To lash the Magic Creature
Till it fell,
Yet that Whip's Name
Too noble then to tell.
Magnanimous as Bird
By Boy descried —
Singing unto the...
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Now Art has lost its mental Charms
France shall subdue the World in Arms
So spoke an Angel at my birth
Then said Descend thou upon Earth
5Renew the Arts on Britains Shore...Now I knew I lost her —
Not that she was gone —
But Remoteness travelled
On her Face and Tongue.
Alien, though adjoining
As a Foreign Race —
Traversed she though pausing
Latitudeless Place.
Elements Unaltered —
Universe the same
But Love's...Now I lay thee down to Sleep —
I pray the Lord thy Dust to keep —
And if thou live before thou wake —
I pray the Lord thy Soul to make —