| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| Beauty |
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| NOT flesh alone am I, when I can be | |
| So swiftly caught in Beauty’s shimmering thread | |
| Whose slender fibres, woven, held by me, | |
| With their frail strength my following heart have led. | |
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| Yea, not all mortal, not all death my mind, | 5 |
| When, watching by lone twilight waters’ brim | |
| I tremblingly decipher, as they wind, | |
| Her deathless hieroglyphs, though strange and dim. | |
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| So for this faith, when Thou my dust shalt bring | |
| To dust, remember well, Great Alchemist, | 10 |
| Yearly to change my wintry earth to spring, | |
| That I with Beauty still may keep my tryst. | |
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