POET

Suns and stars their courses keep,

But not angels of the deep:

Day and night their turn observe,

But the day of day may swerve.

Is there warrant that the waves

Of thought in their mysterious caves

Will heap in me their highest tide,

In me therewith beatified?

Unsure the ebb and flood of thought,

The moon comes back,--the Spirit not.

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