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I delight to come to my bearings,__ot walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,__ot to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;__ot hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,__ot suppose a case, but take the case that is

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TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal__etrimental as well if the eye is not innocent-does it mean that one can live only on top leaves that are small reachable only by a beast that is tall?_ of which the giraffe is the best example_ the unconversational animal. When plagued by the psychological, a creature can be unbearable that could have been irresistible; or to be exact, exceptional since less conversational than some emotionally-tied-in-knots animal. After all consolations of the metaphysical can be profound. In Homer, existence is flawed; transcendence, conditional; __he journey from sin to redemption, perpetual.

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ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty__ son and rosemary_ Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly_ born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a garland of festivity. Not always rosemary_ since the flight to Egypt, blooming differently. With lancelike leaf, green but silver underneath, its flowers__hite originally_ turned blue. The herb of memory, imitating the blue robe of Mary, is not too legendary to flower both as symbol and as pungency. Springing from stones beside the sea, the height of Christ when thirty-three_ it feeds on dew and to the bee __ath a dumb language_; is in reality a kind of Christmas-tree.

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TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO __ven when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.___ICTOR HUGO Of: my crow Pluto, the true Plato, azzurronegro green-blue rainbow_ Victor Hugo, it is true we know that the crow __as wings,_ however pigeon-toe- inturned on grass. We do. (adagio) Vivorosso __orvo,_ although con dizionario io parlo Italiano_ this pseudo Esperanto which, savio ucello you speak too_ my vow and motto (botto e totto) io giuro è questo credo: lucro è peso morto. And so dear crow_ gioièllo mio_ I have to let you go; a bel bosco generoso, tuttuto vagabondo, serafino uvaceo Sunto, oltremarino verecondo Plato, a

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In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of its originality; with nothing to modify it but the mist that went up, obliqueness was a variation of the perpendicular, plain to see and to account for: it is no longer that; nor did the blue-red-yellow band of incandescence that was color keep its stripe