1.
North Carolina, Washington and Baltimore.
2.
An auto going south, and words in
a room,
And outside, pink of May, white
of June, brown of September,
white of
December.
3.
In a widely tumultuous sky, a darkening
sky, going out, dark on all sides,
for miles,
somewhere in the sky sweetly luminous air; quietly shining
stillness
somewhere amid strange thunders; and after strange thunders
the meaningful
careless calling of an unperturbed bird.
Vanishing of black, smoky train
into softly-white, million-flowered
field;
disappearance of weighty smoke and heavy cinders into
delicate
summery shimmer.
4.
The finely adequate word showing
where justice might have been long
ago and
the meeting of this word by a line of feminine light.
5.
Among a wildly numbered, swirling,
diving, circling, plunging mighty
army of
flying things, See!-Some still power, which persons may
call chance
or choice or destiny or the Lord or ever-so-often-
mentioned
God-and the departing from a swirling army of two
beings,
a departing in some universal manner; and the making of
some deliberate
universe themselves.
6.
And where have you been?
It is snowing fast,
It is a long way from here,
Sometime, yes-
All in a way for themselves.
7.
With every instance of affection
a world connives,
Every kind word is part of destiny's
business.
The universe cheers when the word
of one person is met keenly,
knowingly,
lovingly by another.
Love is the mightiest point in a
sweet and cunning world's going
after harmony;
Love is the color of the deftest
and richest world geometry,
Geometry moving, and making a point
a world, and a world a point.
8.
The whiteness of a petal,
The clean shiningness of a diamond,
The racing of clouds into clouds,
and the curving of winds round trains;
Steel, mist, light, wheels, and
old ocean,
All are the attendants of mind liking
mind,
And all serve today.
9.
Today has been served for ever.
The reins of the mighty, earth-possessing
drivers,
The disposers of society,
And they who bind wild lines into
one line,
Are the humble attendants of today.
10.
Green of North Carolina, history
in Washington, and white
in Baltimore
are concerned today.
11.
It is a constantly arranging and
rearranging world,
And the arrangements and rearrangements
are what science
and law
are after.
The most glorious chase in the world
is that of mind after a frisky
universe,
And earth joins in the cheering
when some of its colorful madness
Has science and law for its conquerors,
And the colorful madness is greater
than ever.
12.
Two in this serious game of making
law and color one,
Like two clouds that join and together
go down the sky-
After an unknown sun-
And a light beyond suns-
Join, kindly, for the management
of this terrifyingly deceptive,
evanescent,
massive, high and low, godlike, snail-like-this
and that-and
all around us, in us, and beyond us, and beyond
us, and
beyond us-and for us world.
13.
Marriage is a successful simile
in the poetry of this startling
existence
we're in.
14.
Here's affection and here is, too,
Observation of history together,
Notation of the law,
Worriment about justice,
Regard for the atom,
Companioned conversation with some
imposing German.
15.
An auto may take one,
To the knowing light in a dear face,
Or the knowledge-having laugh of
a dear mind, mind shown
in mischievous
eyes.
So many fields passed for the meeting
of love,
So many flowers whizzed by for the
meeting of love,
So many houses spurned, meadows
banished, barns raced past-
For the meeting of a dear face.
Houses spurned for the meeting of
love,
Stars abandoned for the meeting
of love.
16.
Springs we'll have again,
And springs with the presence of
love.
Sultry nights will be ours again,
And nights with knowledge and care
about.
The opening of doors, the cessation
of rain, the disappearance of birds,
All will have love around.
17.
For love changes birds for us,
And makes the delicate pink petal
soberly hidden away,
And the gliding, motor-mad, dashing
through clouds aeroplane,
Something else; affection has made
a new adjective for petals
and aeroplanes.
18.
We hail today new summers,
New waves;
And a new past.
19.
Eyes we may suppose,
Are made so that the rose
May be seen; this is the way
Something uses to convey
To us, it has made
Besides our eyes and us,
Something else; and thus and thus
This thing goes about its business.
And for eyes is light and shade,
And for eyes is nothing less
Than a world and a rose,
Than a world and a rose.
The rose has lines and victories,
Despairs, defeat and hate,
Ugliness, terror, shocks.
The rose has all of fate,
The world has all of fate,
The rose has early and late,
The world has early and late-
And spears and stars and fires.-
And don't you, however, suppose
The eye is for the rose?
Surely the world mocks
Us and so does the rose.
However one sees
Things; however strangely attires
Itself this earth of ours-
Both in steel and flowers-
See it-for don't you suppose
The eye is for the rose?
20.
Eyes and mind together,
In thunder a hand lying on a hand.
Wheels whizzing to reach an active
page, a learned page-a word.
And a hand lying on a hand,
And a cloud on a cloud,
And a mist over ocean,
And flower going off towards dazzling
planets,
And a word meeting a word,
And a word meeting a word,
And a word meeting a word,
And North Carolina, Washington,
Baltimore,
And a hand lying on a hand,
And a word.
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