A Drop fell on the Apple Tree - Another - on the Roof - A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves - And made the Gables laugh - A few went out to help the Brook That went to help the Sea - Myself Conjectured were they Pearls - What Necklaces could be - The Dust replaced, in Hoisted Roads - The Birds jocoser sung - The Sunshine threw his Hat away - The Bushes - spangles flung - The Breezes brought dejected Lutes - And bathed them in the Glee - Then Orient showed a single Flag, And signed the Fete away - ___ Her final Summer was it - And yet We guessed it not - If tenderer industriousness Pervaded Her, We thought A further force of life Developed from within - When Death lit all the shortness up It made the hurry plain - We wondered at our blindness When nothing was to see But Her Carrara Guide post - At Our Stupidity - When duller than our dullness The Busy Darling lay - So busy was she - finishing - So leisurely - were We - ___ Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy - For Greatness, that is ill at ease In minor Company - A Smaller, could not be perturbed - The Summer Gnat displays - Unconscious that his single Sail Do not comprise the skies - ___ By my Window have I for Scenery Just a Sea - with a Stem - If the Bird and the Farmer - deem it a "Pine" - The Opinion will do - for them - It has no Port, nor a "Line" - but the Jays - That split their route to the Sky - Or a Squirrel, whose giddy Peninsula May be easier reached - this way - For Inlands - the Earth is the under side - And the upper side - is the Sun - And it's Commerce - if Commerce it have - Of Spice - I infer from the Odors borne - Of it's Voice - to affirm - when the Wind is within - Can the Dumb - define the Divine? The Definition of Melody - is - That Definition is none - It - suggests to our Faith - They - suggest to our Sight - When the latter - is put away I shall meet with Conviction I somewhere met That Immortality - Was the Pine at my Window a "Fellow Of the Royal" Infinity? Apprehensions - are God's introductions - To be hallowed - accordingly - ___ Defrauded I a Butterfly - The lawful Heir - for Thee - ___ "I want" - it pleaded - All it's life - I want - was chief it said When Skill entreated it - the last - And when so newly dead - I could not deem it late - to hear That single - steadfast sigh - The lips had placed as with a "Please" Toward Eternity - ___ It was a Grave - yet bore no Stone - Enclosed 'twas not - of Rail - A Consciousness - it's Acre - And It held a Human Soul - Entombed by whom - for what offence - If Home or foreign - born - Had I the Curiosity - 'Twere not appeased of Man - Till Resurrection, I must guess - Denied the small desire A Rose upon it's Ridge - to sow - Or sacrificial Flower - ___ She staked her Feathers - Gained an Arc - Debated - Rose again - This time - beyond the estimate Of Envy, or of Men - And now, among Circumference - Her steady Boat be seen - At home - among the Billows - As The Bough where she was born - ___ Despair's advantage is achieved By suffering - Despair - To be assisted of Reverse One must itself have bore - The Worthiness of Suffering like The Worthiness of Death Is ascertained by tasting - As can no other Mouth Of Savors - make us conscious - As did ourselves partake - Affliction feels impalpable Until Ourselves are struck - ___ 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. ___ I play at Riches - to appease The Clamoring for Gold - It kept me from a Thief, I think, For often, overbold With Want, and Opportunity - I could have done a Sin And been Myself that easy Thing An independent Man - But often as my lot displays Too hungry to be borne I deem Myself what I would be - And novel Comforting My Poverty and I derive - We question if the Man - Who own - Esteem the Opulence - As We - Who never Can - Should ever these exploring Hands Chance Sovreign on a Mine - Or in the long - uneven term To win, become their turn - How fitter they will be - for Want - Enlightening so well - I know not which, Desire, or Grant - Be wholly beautiful - ___ She rose to His Requirement - dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife - If ought She missed in Her new Day, Of Amplitude, or Awe - Or first Prospective - Or the Gold In using, wear away, It lay unmentioned - as the Sea Develope Pearl, and Weed, But only to Himself - be known The Fathoms they abide - ___ Time feels so vast that were it not For an Eternity - I fear me this Circumference Engross my Finity - To His exclusion, who prepare By Processes of Size For the Stupendous Vision Of his Diameters - ___ Who Court obtain within Himself Sees every Man a King - And Poverty of Monarchy Is an interior thing - No Man depose Whom Fate Ordain - And Who can add a Crown To Him who doth continual Conspire against His Own ___ No Notice gave She, but a Change - No Message, but a Sigh - For Whom, the Time did not suffice That She should specify. She was not warm, though Summer shone Nor scrupulous of cold Though Rime by Rime, the steady Frost Upon Her Bosom piled - Of shrinking ways - she did not fright Though all the Village looked - But held Her gravity aloft - And met the gaze - direct - And when adjusted like a Seed In careful fitted Ground Unto the Everlasting Spring And hindered but a Mound Her Warm return, if so she chose - And We - imploring drew - Removed our invitation by As Some She never knew - ___ They say that "Time assuages" - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with Age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady - ___ On the Bleakness of my Lot Bloom I strove to raise - Late - My Garden of a Rock Yielded Grape - and Maize - Soil of Flint, if steady tilled Will refund the Hand - Seed of Palm, by Libyan Sun Fructified in Sand - ___ This Bauble was preferred of Bees - By Butterflies admired At Heavenly - Hopeless Distances - Was justified of Bird - Did Noon - enamel - in Herself Was Summer to a Score Who only knew of Universe - It had created Her - ___ A Plated Life - diversified With Gold and Silver Pain To prove the presence of the Ore In Particles - 'tis when A Value struggle - it exist - A Power - will proclaim Although Annihilation pile Whole Chaoses on Him - ___ Expectation - is Contentment - Gain - Satiety - But Satiety - Conviction Of Nescessity Of an Austere trait in Pleasure - Good, without alarm Is a too established Fortune - Danger - deepens Sum - ___