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The Angle of a Landscape -
That every time I wake -
Between my Curtain and
the Wall
Opon an ample Crack -
Like a Venetian - waiting -
Accosts my open eye -
Is just a Bough of Apples -
Held slanting, in the Sky -
The Pattern of a Chimney -
The Forehead of a Hill -
Sometimes - a Vane's
Forefinger -
But that's - Occasional -
The Seasons - shift - my Picture -
Opon my Emerald Bough,
I wake - to find no - Emeralds -
Then - Diamonds - which the Snow
From Polar Caskets - fetched
me -
The Chimney - and the Hill -
And just the Steeple's finger -
These - never stir at all -
The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend -
Or the most agonizing Spy -
An Enemy - could send -
Secure against it's own -
No treason it can fear -
Itself - it's Sovreign - Of
itself
The Soul should stand in
Awe -
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