The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.

This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

Action is redemption.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.