Empty my Heart, of Thee —

Its single Artery —

Begin, and leave Thee out —

Simply Extinction's Date —


Much Billow hath the Sea —

One Baltic — They —

Subtract Thyself, in play,

And not enough of me

Is left — to put away —

"Myself" meanth Thee —


...

Endanger it, and the Demand

Of tickets for a sigh

Amazes the Humility

Of Credibility —


Recover it to Nature

And that dejected Fleet

Find Consternation's Carnival

Divested of its Meat.

Endow the Living — with the Tears —

You squander on the Dead,

And They were Men and Women — now,

Around Your Fireside —


Instead of Passive Creatures,

Denied the Cherishing

Till They — the Cherishing deny —

With Death's Ethereal Scorn —

 
English Encouragement of Art

[First reading]


If you mean to Please Every body you will

Set to work both Ignorance & skill

For a great multitude are Ignorant

And skill to them seems raving & ran
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