[BNP/E3, 49A1 – 61]
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All things are symbols
As the word[1] of the thing
The child sad that trembles
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The bird on the ring
The moon that resembles
An imagining
All things are showings
Of what half they are not
Revolves like the glowings
That spring up from rot
When gleam that doth shine
When a body’s bad love
Of that body songs brought
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All things are meanings
Yet what mean or tell
Peculiar seemings
None contained[2] too well
That vacant dread wearings
The life’s vacant hell.
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If this is {…}
All things are a number
Because all things are,
Ideas are under
Existence too far
End
So I thought one night
When the moonlight did hit
The great city’s half-bright
Bulk in darkness and lit
And in the bitter delight
Look in[3] the world with the sight
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Of a thing not of it
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Though strange are the seeings
But fancy can twist
Yet the fact that beings
Are here and exist
Supposes in strangeness
All things there are stage
The mystery of action
The mystery of change
Of life and of death
And all that shakes faith,
All this to detect.
Doth drive, ne’er the mind
That fancies, imagines
With its own {…} expression
Things deep, undefined.
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For all that aught
And make our mind
Is but a draught
Before that what is true
Deceiving the mind
But deep things shall find
The fact that a world
Exists, can be seen
The fact that things are
And that things have been
Is the wander of all,
Is thought’s honey and gall
What does it appal
In horror screen.
That we should be and that things
Shall be, pass and mourn
That imaginings
Fears, woes, † and born
Should be really real
Should be truly true fact
Is more strange than the ideal
Thoughts that can attract
Our mind that is bold
To such great and grand
If nothing ever hold
Nor aught understand.
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[1] word /thought\
[2] contained /Endarkened\
[3] Look in /Saw\
