780

779
Opportunity spright,
You darting bird
To catch a fellow
Fled oblivion.
In the harrow
Is heaven next;
Of it--
The world a field.

778

777
Tested fear lays his ribbon
Red as guidance down
In wide supposition's unposted race.
.
Light will have her strict shadow
Yet the cast's design's depending
On the unfixed eye's hapless place.
.
The red runs through
The field become
Stippled subjective
And other--
My foot falls
And eye--
On dark and bright.

776

775

774

773
The moon's in the window
Diminished--such glory,
To be small--
A far note become melody
In remembrance--
Sharp now deflected.
Peripheral; not to essay
A reflection.

772

771

770

769
Snow autumn
Yellow ginkgo
Wings of butter-
Fly abandoned
From startled grasp--such
Inclement news!

768

767
To notch the epoch
Upon time's rule,
And name it category--
Or tell a being that her thoughts
Encordoned lie
Within temporal whim--
Would great circumference
Crimp to small--
Or throne a pearl,
Entire queen--
Her crown beyond your reach.

766

765
Were inadequate certain to beauty,
Might the gap the measure be
Of necessity?
The scale bent: mending balance--
Grace--the misshape of perfection.

[>a.]

764

763
How different in the passage,
Season and eye, of propinquity
To furtive end?
Guarded additions, scroll sky--then--
Hushed discollection.

762

761