[BNP/E3, 49A4 – 11-11a]

There were no figures clear unto mine eyes

In all that their through that yet a clear did seem…

And all this was not as in life’s

Not also as the silent things in dreams…

     This was no when, and for no reason… It was…

     And all my soul[1] seemed giving to see it pass…

_____

Earlier than solitude, my heart works

To some companionship with God’s near Loves,

And all the time {…}[2]

[11ar]

13-1-15

With pitying hands that smoothen our fevered love

Even when they touch it not and merely play

About the coverlets that weigh our own show

Of broken illness, for |life|[3] quite astray. 

{…} and bring

The coverlets that are on[4] paid loves,

Into a caress of our {…}

With hands that came out of sainthood to hold

Our hands and with this pressure and no more

Ask us to wonder not that life is cold

And our regret a sea with a show.

With this † holiness of hands

Come towards me around take up for dreams…

My fevered soul that vaguely understands

What other love[5] of life, not even ever seen…

     With these white hands flooded sit by my side

     And let the world come for ever like a tide…

__________

I saw the pageant of past hours so by

Like something present… It was like some king’s

Procession to a Temple… A mystery

To that striped live of pomp[6] usually clings…

I saw the pageant pass and it seemed ever

At the same point of never passing me…

Something draw Sauber it did seem, a river

Of images, unknown, unfree…

 
[1] soul /dreams\
[2] [11v]

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[3] |life| /sense\ /true sense\
[4] are on /cover our\
[5] love /live\
[6] pomp /purpose\ /pump\