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A Prison gets to be a
friend -
Between it's Ponderous face
And Our's - a Kinsmanship
express -
And in it's narrow Eyes -
We come to look with
fondness - • pleasure
gratitude
For the appointed Beam
It furnish
deal us - stated as Our
food -
And hungered for - the same -
We learn to know the
Planks -
That answer to Our feet -
So miserable a sound - at first -
Nor even now - so sweet -
As plashing in the Pools -
When Memory was a Boy -
But a Demurer Measure -
Circuit -
A Geometric Joy -
The Posture of the Key
That interrupt the Day
To Our Endeavor - Not so
true - • close - • near
real
The Cheek of Liberty -
As this Companion
Phantasm steel -
Whose features - Day and
Night -
Are present to us - as Our
Own -
And as escapeless - quite -
The narrow Round - the stint -
The slow exchange of Hope -
For something passiver - Content
Too steep for looking up -
The Liberty we knew
Avoided - As
like a Dream -
Too wide for any night
but Heaven -
If Even That - redeem -
That - indeed - redeem -
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