One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

My business is circumference.