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My first well Day - since
many ill -
I asked to go abroad,
And take the Sunshine in
my hands
And see the things in Pod -
A'blossom just - when I went in
To take my Ris
Chance with pain -
Uncertain if myself, or He,
Should prove the supplest - • lithest - • stoutest
strongest One.
The Summer deepened, while
we strove -
She put some flowers away -
And Redder cheeked Ones - in
their place
stead -
A fond - illusive way -
To Cheat Herself, it seemed
she tried -
As if before a Child
To die -
fade - Tomorrow - Rainbows
thrust
held
The Sepulchre, could hide.
She dealt the
a fashion to the
Nut -
She tied the Hoods to Seeds -
She dropped bright scraps
of Tint, about -
And left Brazilian Threads
On every shoulder she could reach
that she met -
Then both her Hands of Haze
Put up - to hold
hide her
parting Grace
From our unfurnished
unfitted eyes -
My loss, by sickness - Was it
Loss?
Or that Etherial Gain
One earns by measuring the
Grave -
Then - measuring the Sun -
For Largest Woman's Heart
I knew -
'Tis little I can do -
And yet the Largest Woman's
Heart
Can hold an Arrow, too,
And so, instructed by my own -
I tenderer - turn me to -
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