If any sink, assure that this, now standing - Failed like Themselves - and conscious that it rose - Grew by the Fact, and not the Understanding How Weakness passed - or Force - arose - Tell that the Worst, is easy in a Moment - Dread, but the Whizzing, before the Ball - When the Ball enters, enters Silence - Dying - annuls the power to kill.
The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days - Until the Coronation came - And then - 'twas Otherwise - As Carbon in the Coal And Carbon in the Gem Are One - and yet the former Were dull for Diadem -
I rose, and all was plain - But when the Day declined Myself and It, in Majesty Were equally - adorned -
The Grace that I - was chose - To Me - surpassed the Crown That was the Witness for the Grace - 'Twas even that 'twas Mine.
'Tis Opposites - entice - Deformed Men - ponder Grace - Bright fires - the Blanketless - The Lost - Day's face - The Blind - esteem it be Enough Estate - to see - The Captive - strangles new - For deeming - Beggars - play -
To lack - enamor Thee - Thò the Divinity - Be only Me.
From Cocoon forth a Butterfly As Lady from her Door Emerged - a Summer Afternoon - Repairing Everywhere - Without Design - that I could trace Except to stray abroad On Miscellaneous Enterprise The Clovers - understood -
Her pretty Parasol be seen Contracting in a Field Where Men made Hay - Then struggling hard With an opposing Cloud -
Where Parties - Phantom as Herself - To Nowhere - seemed to go In purposeless Circumference - As 'twere a Tropic Show -
And notwithstanding Bee - that worked - And Flower - that zealous blew - This Audience of Idleness Disdained them, from the Sky -
Till Sundown crept - a steady Tide - And Men that made the Hay - And Afternoon - and Butterfly - Extinguished - in the Sea.
A happy lip - breaks sudden - It does'nt state you how It contemplated - smiling - Just consummated - now - But this one, wears it's merriment So patient - like a pain - Fresh gilded - to elude the eyes Unqualified, to scan.
The Sun - just touched the Morning - The Morning - Happy thing - Supposed that He had come to dwell - And Life would all be Spring! She felt herself supreme - A Raised - Ethereal Thing! Henceforth - for Her - What Holiday! Meanwhile - Her wheeling King - Trailed - slow - along the Orchards - His haughty - spangled Hems - Leaving a new necessity! The want of Diadems!
The Morning - fluttered - staggered - Felt feebly - for Her Crown - Her unanointed forehead - Henceforth - Her only One!
God permits industrious Angels - Afternoons - to play - I met one - forgot my Schoolmates - All - for Him - straightway - God calls home - the Angels - promptly - At the Setting Sun - I missed mine - how dreary - Marbles - After playing Crown!
A Tongue - to tell Him I am true! It's fee - to be of Gold - Had Nature - in Her monstrous House A single Ragged Child - To earn a Mine - would run That Interdicted Way, And tell Him - Charge thee speak it plain - That so far - Truth is True?
And answer What I do - Beginning with the Day That Night - begun - Nay - Midnight - 'twas - Since Midnight - happened - say -
If once more - Pardon - Boy - The Magnitude thou may Enlarge my Message - If too vast Another Lad - help thee -
Thy Pay - in Diamonds - be - And His - in solid Gold - Say Rubies - if He hesitate - My Message - must be told -
Say - last I said - was This - That when the Hills - come down - And hold no higher than the Plain - My Bond - have just begun -
And when the Heavens - disband - And Deity conclude - Then - look for me. Be sure you say - Least Figure - on the Road.
A House upon the Hight - That Wagon never reached - No Dead, were ever carried down - No Peddler's Cart - approached - Whose Chimney never smoked - Whose Windows - Night and Morn - Caught Sunrise first - and Sunset - last - Then - held an Empty Pane -
Whose fate - Conjecture knew - No other neighbor - did - And what it was - we never lisped - Because He - never told.
I had not minded - Walls - Were Universe - one Rock - And far I heard his silver Call The other side the Block - I'd tunnel - till my Groove Pushed sudden thro' to his - Then my face take her Recompense - The looking in his Eyes -
But 'tis a single Hair - A filament - a law - A Cobweb - wove in Adamant - A Battlement - of Straw -
A limit like the Vail Unto the Lady's face - But every Mesh - a Citadel - And Dragons - in the Crease.