[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 60]

Mercury.

I.   3-8-08

Oh I would be mercury

     With {…} wings up my feet

The sight I cease him to be

     Upon earth to {…} and gleet

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Up from earth, any, any,

     The whole breath of upon amid

In a {…} with a bound

     In the bosom of the day

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I might sleep up the air

Golden with the deathless sun

[60v]

And were but a week my life

     In that † I’s gasp

The idea of being eternity in my clasp. 

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