vii. Remembrance Has A Rear And A
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Remembrance has a Rear and a Front
–
‘Tis something like a House –
It has a Garret also
For Refuse and a Mouse.
Besides the deepest Cellar
That ever Mason laid –
Look to it by its Fathoms
Ourselves be not pursued.
viii. The Props Assist The House
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The Props assist the House
Until the House is built
And then the Props withdraw
And adequate, erect,
The House support itself
And cease to recollect
The Auger and the Carpenter –
Just such a retrospect
Hath the perfected Life –
A past of Plank and Nail
And slowness – then the Scaffold drop
Affirming it a Soul.
ix. Lay This Laurel On The One
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Lay this Laurel on the One
Too intrinsic for Renown –
Laurel – veil your deathless tree –
Him you chasten, that is He!
x. Color – Caste - Denomination
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Color – Caste – Denomination –
These- are Time’s Affair –
Death’s diviner Classifying
Does
not know that they are there –
As in sleep – All Hue forgotten –
Tenets – put aside –
Death’s large – Democratic fingers
Rub away the Brand –
If Circassian – He is careless –
If He put away
Chrysalis of Blonde – or Umber
Equal Butterfly –
They emerge from His Obscuring –
What Time – knows so well –
Our minuter intuitions –
Deem implausible.