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Of all the Sounds
despatched abroad,
There's not a Charge
to me
Like that old measure
in the Boughs -
That phraseless Melody -
The Wind does - working
like a Hand,
Whose fingers Comb
the Sky -
Then quiver down - with
tufts of Tune -
Permitted Gods, and me -
Inheritance, it is,
to us -
Beyond the Art to
earn -
Beyond the trait to
take away
By Robber, since the
Gain
Is gotten not of fingers -
And inner than the
Bone -
Hid golden, for the
whole of Days,
And even in the Urn,
I cannot vouch the
merry Dust
Do not arise and
play,
In some odd fashion
of it's own,
Some quainter Holiday,
When Winds go round
and round in Bands -
And thrum opon the
door,
And Birds take
places, overhead,
To bear them Orchestra.
I crave Him grace of
Summer Boughs,
If such an Outcast be -
Who never heard
that fleshless Chant -
Rise - solemn - on the
Tree,
As if some Caravan
of Sound
Off Deserts, in the
Sky,
Had parted Rank -
Then knit, and swept -
In Seamless Company -
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