ABSTEMIA

_In Mystic_ Argot _often Confounded with Farrago_

If aught that stumbles in my speech

Or stutters in my pen,

Or, claiming tribute, each to each,

Rise, not to fall again,

Let something lowlier far, for me,

Through evanescent shades--

Than which my spirit might not be

Nourished in fitful ecstasy

Not less to know but more to see

Where that great Bliss pervades.

_Gelett Burgess_.

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