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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 />

Nor any know I know the Art<br />

I mention — easy — Here —<br />

Nor any Placard boast me —<br />

It’s full as Opera —<br />

4.26.17 #407 [One need not be a Chamber – <strong>to</strong> be Haunted]<br />

One need not be a Chamber — <strong>to</strong> be Haunted —<br />

One need not be a House —<br />

The Brain has Corridors — surpassing<br />

Material Place —<br />

Far safer, <strong>of</strong> a Midnight Meeting<br />

External Ghost<br />

Than its interior Confronting —<br />

That Cooler Host.<br />

Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,<br />

The S<strong>to</strong>nes a’chase —<br />

Than Unarmed, one’s a’self encounter —<br />

In lonesome Place —<br />

Ourself behind ourself, concealed —<br />

Should startle most —<br />

Assassin hid in our Apartment<br />

Be Horror’s least.<br />

The Body — borrows a Revolver —<br />

He bolts the Door —<br />

O’erlooking a superior spectre —<br />

Or More —<br />

4.26.18 #409 [The Soul selects her own Society]<br />

The Soul selects her own Society —<br />

Then — shuts the Door —<br />

To her divine Majority —<br />

Present no more —<br />

Unmoved — she notes the Chariots — pausing —<br />

At her low Gate —<br />

Unmoved — an Emperor be kneeling<br />

Upon her Mat —<br />

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