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I think I was enchanted
When first a sombre Girl -
I read that Foreign Lady -
The Dark - felt beautiful -
And whether it was noon
at night -
Or only Heaven - at noon -
For very Lunacy of Light
I had not power to tell -
The Bees - became as
Butterflies -
The Butterflies - as Swans -
Approached - and spurned
the narrow Grass -
And just the Common Tunes - • faintest [Tunes
meanest Tunes
That Nature murmured to
herself
To keep herself in Cheer -
I took for Giants - practising
Titanic Opera -
The Days - to Mighty Metres
stept -
The Homeliest - adorned
As if unto a Sacrament
Jubilee
'Twere suddenly ordained
confirmed -
I could not have defined the
change -
Conversion of the Mind
Like Sanctifying in the Soul -
Is witnessed - not explained -
'Twas a Divine Insanity -
The Sorrow
Danger to be sane
Should I again experience -
'Tis Antidote to turn -
To Tomes of Solid Witchcraft -
Magicians be asleep -
But Magic - hath an element
Like Deity - to keep -
'Tis Customary as we part
A Trinket - to confer -
It helps to stimulate the faith
When Lovers be afar -
'Tis various - as the various taste -
Clematis - journeying far -
Presents me with a single Curl
Of her Electric Hair - Poems1955--340, noting that clematis is also known as "Traveler's Joy," suggested that the poem may have been "composed to accompany a gift of a clematis blossom for a departing friend."
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