I taste a liquor never brewed

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I taste a liquor never brewed
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From Tankards scooped in Pearl
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Not all the Frankfort Berries
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Yield such an Alcohol!
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Inebriate of air am I
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And Debauchee of Dew
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Reeling thro endless summer days
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From inns of molten Blue
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When Landlords turn the drunken Bee

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Out of the Foxgloves door
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When Butterflies renounce their drams
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I shall but drink the more!
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Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats
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And Saints to windows run
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To see the little Tippler
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Leaning against the Sun!
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Success is counted sweetest
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Success is counted sweetest

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By those who ne'er succeed.
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To comprehend a nectar
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Requires sorest need.
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Not one of all the purple Host
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Who took the Flag today
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Can tell the definition
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So clear of victory
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As he defeated dying
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On whose forbidden ear

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The distant strains of triumph
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Burst agonized and clear!
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Wild nights - Wild nights!
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Wild nights - Wild nights!
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Were I with thee
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Wild nights should be
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Our luxury!
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Futile - the winds ..
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To a Heart in port -

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Done with the Compass ..
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Done with the Chart!
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Rowing in Eden ..
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Ah - the Sea!
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Might I but moor - tonight
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In thee!
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
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And Mourners to and fro

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Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
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That Sense was breaking through
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And when they all were seated,
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A Service, like a Drum ..
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Kept beating - beating - till I thought
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My mind was going numb
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And then I heard them lift a Box
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And creak across my Soul
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With those same Boots of Lead, again,

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Then Space - began to toll,
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As all the Heavens were a Bell,
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And Being, but an Ear,
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And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
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Wrecked, solitary, here
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And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
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And I dropped down, and down ..
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And hit a World, at every plunge,
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And Finished knowing - then

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ImNobody!Who areyou?
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Im Nobody! Who are you
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Are you Nobody too?
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Then theres a pair of us!
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Dont tell! theyd advertise you know!
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How dreary to be Somebody!
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How public like a Frog
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To tell ones name the livelong June
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To an admiring Bog!

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Hope is the thing with feathers
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Hope is the thing with feathers ..
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That perches in the soul ..
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And sings the tune without the words ..
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And never stops - at all ..
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And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard ..
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And sore must be the storm ..
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That could abash the little Bird
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That kept so many warm -

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Ive heard it in the chillest land ..
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And on the strangest Sea ..
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Yet - never - in Extremity,
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It asked a crumb - of me.
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A Bird, came down the Walk
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A Bird, came down the Walk ..
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He did not know I saw ..
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He bit an Angle Worm in halves
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And ate the fellow, raw,

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And then, he drank a Dew
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From a convenient Grass ..
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And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
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To let a Beetle pass
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He glanced with rapid eyes,
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That hurried all abroad ..
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They looked like frightened Beads, I thought,
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He stirred his Velvet Head.
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Like one in danger, Cautious,

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I offered him a Crumb,
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And he unrolled his feathers,
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And rowed him softer Home ..
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Than Oars divide the Ocean,
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Too silver for a seam,
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Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon,
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Leap, plashless as they swim.
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Because I could not stop for Death
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Because I could not stop for Death

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He kindly stopped for me
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The Carriage held but just Ourselves
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And Immortality.
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We slowly drove He knew no haste

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And I had put away
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My labor and my leisure too,
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For His Civility
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We passed the School, where Children strove
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At Recess in the Ring

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We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain
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We passed the Setting Sun
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Or rather He passed Us
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The Dews drew quivering and Chill
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For only Gossamer, my Gown
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My Tippet only Tulle
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We paused before a House that seemed
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A Swelling of the Ground
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The Roof was scarcely visible

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The Cornice in the Ground
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Since then 'tis Centuries and yet
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Feels shorter than the Day
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I first surmised the Horses' Heads
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Were toward Eternity
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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun
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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun ..
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In Corners - till a Day
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The Owner passed - identified ..

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And carried Me away ..
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And now We roam in Sovreign Woods ..
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And now We hunt the Doe ..
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And every time I speak for Him
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The Mountains straight reply ..
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And do I smile, such cordial light
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Opon the Valley glow ..
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It is as a Vesuvian face
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Had let its pleasure through
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And when at Night - Our good Day done ..
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I guard My Masters Head ..
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Tis better than the Eider Ducks
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Deep Pillow - to have shared
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To foe of His - Im deadly foe ..
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None stir the second time ..
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On whom I lay a Yellow Eye ..
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Or an emphatic Thumb
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Though I than He - may longer live

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He longer must - than I ..
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For I have but the power to kill,
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Without - the power to die -\
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant
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Success in Circuit lies
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Too bright for our infirm Delight
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The Truth's superb surprise
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As Lightning to the Children eased

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With explanation kind
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The Truth must dazzle gradually
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Or every man be blind
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