Bring me the sunset in a cup –
Reckon the morning′s flagons up
And say how many Dew –
Tell me how far the morning leaps –
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadths of blue!
Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin′s extasy
Among astonished boughs –
How many trips the Tortoise makes –
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!
Also ′ Who laid the Rainbow′s piers,
Also ′ Who leads the docile spheres
By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite –
Who counts the wampum of the night
To see that none is due?
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Reckon the morning′s flagons up
And say how many Dew –
Tell me how far the morning leaps –
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadths of blue!
Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin′s extasy
Among astonished boughs –
How many trips the Tortoise makes –
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!
Also ′ Who laid the Rainbow′s piers,
Also ′ Who leads the docile spheres
By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite –
Who counts the wampum of the night
To see that none is due?
¦
Who built this little Alban House
And shut the windows down so close
My spirit cannot see?
Who’ll let me out some gala day
With implements to fly away,
Passing Pomposity?
She died at play –
Gambolled away
Her lease of spotted hours,
Then sank as gaily as a Turk
Opon a Couch of flowers –
Her ghost strolled softly o′er the hill –
Yesterday, and Today –
Her vestments as the silver fleece –
Her countenance as spray –