Two butterflies went out at Noon —
And waltzed upon a Farm —
Then stepped straight through the Firmament
And rested, on a Beam —
And then — together bore away
Upon a shining Sea —
Though never yet, in any Port —
Their coming, mentioned — be —
If spoken by the distant...
It was shearing time at the Myall Lake,
And then rose the sound through the livelong day
Of the constant clash that the shear-blades make
When the fastest shearers are making play;
But there wasn't a man in the shearers' lines
That could shear a sheep with the two Devines.
They had rung the sheds...
Two Lengths has every Day —
Its absolute extent
And Area superior
By Hope or Horror lent —
Eternity will be
Velocity or Pause
At Fundamental Signals
From Fundamental Laws.
To die is not to go —
On Doom's consummate Chart
No Territory new is...
Two Travellers perishing in Snow
The Forests as they froze
Together heard them strengthening
Each other with the words
That Heaven if Heaven — must contain
What Either left behind
And then the cheer too solemn grew
For language, and the wind
Long steps across the...
Two — were immortal twice —
The privilege of few —
Eternity — obtained — in Time —
Reversed Divinity —
That our ignoble Eyes
The quality conceive
Of Paradise superlative —
Through their Comparative.
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees; all times I have enjoy'd
...
Uncertain lease — develops lustre
On Time
Uncertain Grasp, appreciation
Of Sum —
The shorter Fate — is oftener the chiefest
Because
Inheritors upon a tenure
Prize —
My Uncle Bill! My Uncle Bill!
How doth my heart with anguish thrill!
For he, our chief, our Robin Hood,
Has gone to jail for stealing wood!
With tears and sobs my voice I raise
To celebrate my uncle's praise;
With all my strength, with all my skill,
I'll sing the song of Uncle Bill."
...
Under the Light, yet under,
Under the Grass and the Dirt,
Under the Beetle's Cellar
Under the Clover's Root,
Further than Arm could stretch
Were it Giant long,
Further than Sunshine could
Were the Day Year long,
Over the Light, yet over,
Over the Arc of the...
This is the place where they all were bred;
Some of the rafters are standing still;
Now they are scattered and lost and dead,
Every one from the old nest fled,
Out of the shadow of Kiley's Hill.
Better it is that they ne'er came back --
Changes and chances are quickly rung;
Now the old...