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PARTISAN REVIEW
And help what can; and meantime let who will
Lift on this glimmered dark his joy, his small surmise, while,
Serious and unregarding, with stiff hands the heavens
Rust and unwreathe the world.
7.
Squared behind intellectual hedges:
Bloodhounds and rifles arranged to guard:
Be sure: subtly, how cheated faith avenges.
Make the mind only a little too hard:
Suspect too fearfully the irrational:
Your feet will break through tunnels under your yard.
You will be unseated by an unforeseen international.
Have you surely added it up to the right amount?
Shall florid history never split your pot?
Have you taken the animals thoroughly into account?
Are you sure it is still yourself you dream of or not.
8.
Your end's to end forever
War's wrath, the rotted laws.
But man in his last anger
Shall kill for larger cause.
9.
Tears are the touchers of that secret earth
No alien rains attend; be therefore tears;
Grieve, and your holy land accords you mirth;
Pity brings wrens of the most batflight fears.
10. A Nursery Rhyme.
Glimmer, glimmer,universe
Whom storms of mysteries immerse:
Nebulae not grieved for Zion
The blown seeds of a dandelion:
How I wonder by what rules
Beyond the touch of local fools
In the anarchic spring unborn
Whose front lawn you shall adorn.
