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A narrow Fellow in
the Grass
Occasionally rides -
You may have met Him -
did you not
His notice sudden is -
The Grass divides as
with a Comb -
A spotted shaft is
seen -
And then it closes
at your feet
And opens further on -
He likes a Boggy
Acre
A Floor too cool
for Corn
Yet when a Boy, and
Barefoot -
I more than once at
Noon
Have passed, I thought,
a Whip lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure
it
It wrinkled, and was
gone -
Several of Nature's
People
I know, and they know
me -
I feel for them a
transport
Of cordiality -
But never met this
Fellow
Attended, or alone
Without a tighter
breathing
And Zero at the Bone -
Ashes denote that Fire
was -
Revere the Grayest Pile
For the Departed Creature's
sake
That hovered there awhile -
Fire exists the first in
light
And then consolidates
Only the Chemist can
disclose
Into what Carbonates -
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