More Songs From Vagabondia by Bliss Carman;Richard Hovey
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page 93 of 95 (97%)
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Into the canvas that without that touch
Showed of his love and labor just so much Raw pigment, scarce a scrap of soul concealing! What poet has not found his spirit kneeling A sudden at the sound of such or such Strange verses staring from his manuscript, Written he knows not how, but which will sound Like trumpets down the years? So Accident Itself unmasks the likeness of Intent, And ever in blind Chance's darkest crypt The shrine-lamp of God's purposing is found. IN A GARDEN. Thought is a garden wide and old For airy creatures to explore, Where grow the great fantastic flowers With truth for honey at the core. There like a wild marauding bee Made desperate by hungry fears, From gorgeous _If_ to dark _Perhaps_ I blunder down the dusk of years. |
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