Delight's Despair at setting
Is that Delight is less
Than the sufficing Longing
That so impoverish.
Enchantment's Perihelion
Mistaken oft has been
For the Authentic orbit
Of its Anterior Sun.
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I'd rather recollect a setting
Than own a rising sun
Though one is beautiful forgetting —
And true the other one.
Because in going is a Drama
Staying cannot confer
To die divinely once a Twilight —
Than wane is easier — -
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, —
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity !
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first...The Sun kept setting — setting — still
No Hue of Afternoon —
Upon the Village I perceived
From House to House 'twas Noon —
The Dusk kept dropping — dropping — still
No Dew upon the Grass —
But only on my Forehead stopped —
And wandered in my Face —
My Feet kept...