The seraph sings before the manifest
God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,
And with the full life of consummate
Heaving beneath him like a mother's
Warm with her first-born's slumber in that
The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven,
Before the naughty world, soon self-forgiven
For wronging him,--and in the darkness prest
From his own soul by worldly weights.
(The Seraph And The Poet)
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The colors from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Dear heaven, how silly are the things that live
In thickets, and eat berries!
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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I marvel how the birds can sing.
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