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alive,

And gathering virtue in at every pore Till it possessed me wholly, aud thought ceased,

Or was transfused in something to which thought

Is coarse and dull of sense. Myself was lost,

Gone from me like an ache, and what remained

Became a part of the universal joy. My soul went forth, and, mingling with the tree,

Danced in the leaves; or, floating in the cloud,

Saw its white double in the stream below;

Or else, sublimed to purer ecstasy,
Dilated in the broad blue over alí.

I was the wind that dappled the lush

grass,

The tide that crept with coolness to its roots,

The thin-winged swallow skating on the air;

The life that gladdened everything was

mine.

Was I then truly all that I beheld?
Or is this stream of being but a glass
Where the mind sees its visionary self
As, when the kingfisher flits o'er his
bay,

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To such divinity that soul and sense, Once more commingled in their source, are lost,

Canst thou descend to quench a vulgar thirst

With the mere dregs and rinsings of the world?

Well, if my nature find her pleasure so,
I am content, nor need to blush; I take
My little gift of being clean from God,
Not haggling for a better, holding it
Good as was ever any in the world,
My days as good and full of miracle.
I pluck my nutriment from any bush,
Finding out poison as the first men did
By tasting and then suffering, if I must.
Sometimes my bush burns, and some-
times it is

A leafless wilding shivering by the wall;
But I have known when winterbarberries
Pricked the effeminate palate with sur-
prise

Of savor whose mere harshness seemed divine.

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