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Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, 2018a

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BECOMING AMERICA<br />

REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD LITERATURE<br />

To scan a Ghost, is faint —<br />

But grappling, conquers it —<br />

How easy, Torment, now —<br />

Suspense kept sawing so —<br />

The Truth, is Bald, and Cold —<br />

But that will hold —<br />

If any are not sure —<br />

We show them — prayer —<br />

But we, who know,<br />

S<strong>to</strong>p hoping, now —<br />

Looking at Death, is Dying —<br />

Just let go the Breath —<br />

<strong>An</strong>d not the pillow at your Cheek<br />

So Slumbereth —<br />

Others, Can wrestle —<br />

Yours, is done —<br />

<strong>An</strong>d so <strong>of</strong> Woe, bleak dreaded — come,<br />

It sets the Fright at liberty —<br />

<strong>An</strong>d Terror’s free —<br />

Gay, Ghastly, Holiday!<br />

4.26.11 #348 [I would not paint – a picture]<br />

I would not paint — a picture —<br />

I’d rather be the One<br />

Its bright impossibility<br />

To dwell — delicious — on —<br />

<strong>An</strong>d wonder how the ngers feel<br />

Whose rare — celestial — stir —<br />

Evokes so sweet a Torment —<br />

Such sumptuous — Despair —<br />

I would not talk, like Cornets —<br />

I’d rather be the One<br />

Raised s<strong>of</strong>tly <strong>to</strong> the Ceilings —<br />

<strong>An</strong>d out, and easy on —<br />

Through Villages <strong>of</strong> Ether —<br />

Myself endued Balloon<br />

By but a lip <strong>of</strong> Metal —<br />

The pier <strong>to</strong> my Pon<strong>to</strong>on —<br />

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