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Delight is as the flight -
Or in the Ratio of it,
As the Schools would say -
The Rainbow's way -
A Skein
Flung colored, after Rain,
Would suit as bright,
Except that flight
Were Aliment -
"If it would last"
I asked the East,
When that Bent Stripe
Struck up my childish
Firmament -
And I, for glee,
Took Rainbows, as the common
way,
And empty skies
The Eccentricity -
And so with Lives -
And so with Butterflies -
Seen magic - through the
fright
That they will cheat the sight -
And Dower latitudes far on -
Some sudden morn -
Our portion - in the fashion -
Done -
She sweeps with many-colored Brooms -
And leaves the shreds behind -
Oh Housewife in the Evening West -
Come back - and - dust the Pond!
You dropped a Purple Ravelling in -
You dropped an Amber thread -
And now you've littered all the East
With Duds of Emerald!
And still, she plies her spotted
Brooms -
And still the Aprons fly,
Till Brooms fade softly into stars -
And then I come away -
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