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Could I but ride
indefinite
As doth the Meadow Bee
And visit only where I
liked
And no one visit me
And flirt all Day with
Buttercups
And marry whom I may
And dwell a little
everywhere
Or better, run away
With no Police to follow
Or chase Him if He do
Till He should jump
Peninsulas
To get away from me -
I said "But just to be
a Bee"
Opon a Raft of Air
And row in Nowhere
all Day long
And anchor "off the Bar"
What Liberty! So Captives
deem
Who tight in Dungeons are.
Embarrassment of one another
And God
Is Revelation's limit,
Aloud
Is nothing that is chief,
But still,
Divinity dwells under Seal -
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