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Goodbye My Fancy

star⁠—in every birth and life, As part of each⁠—evolv’d from each⁠—meaning, behind the ostent, A mystic cipher waits infolded.

Long, Long Hence

After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials, Accumulations, rous’d love and joy and thought, Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers, Coating, compassing, covering⁠—after ages’ and ages’ encrustations, Then only may these songs reach fruition.

Bravo, Paris Exposition!

Add to your show, before you close it, France, With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores, Our sentiment wafted from many million heart-throbs, ethereal but solid, (We grand-sons

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