The changing guests, each in a different mood,
Sit at the roadside table and arise:
And every life among them in like wise
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AS when the last of the paid joys of love
Has come and gone; and with a single kiss
At length, and with one laugh of satiate bliss,
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SHE opened her moist crimson lips to sing;
And from her throat that is so white and full
The notes leaped like a fountain. A smooth lull
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THESE little firs to-day are things
To clasp into a giant's cap,
Or fans to suit his lady's lap.
From many winters many springs
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The ark of the Lord of Hosts
Whose name is called by the name of Him
Who dwelleth between the Cherubim.
O Thou that in no house dost dwell,
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“Messieurs, le Dieu des peintres”: We felt odd:
'Twas Rubens, sculptured. A mean florid church
Was the next thing we saw,—from vane to porch
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“O WOODMAN, spare that block,
Oh gash not anyhow!
It took ten days by clock,
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I
I sat with Love upon a woodside well,
Leaning across the water, I and he;
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“How should I your true love know
From another one?”
“By his cockle-hat and staff
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On the first day the priest
Could find no heart in the beast,
And two on the second day.
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