Eidólons.
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(printed in Two Rivulets 1876)
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| I met a Seer, |
| Passing the hues and objects of the |
| world, |
| The ? sweets ? fruits ? joys ? fields ? fruitsof art, material joys & learning, pleasure, |
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| To glean Eidólons |
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| Put in thy chant, said he. |
| No more the visible human fleeting, fractional face |
| or limb, |
| Nor hour, nor day—no ^segments, parts put in, |
| Put in Eidólons only. |
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| Lo! I or you, |
Or ^Woman, Man ^[about three letters deleted, illegible]
or State, known or unknown |
While ^We seeming solid ^beauty,
wealth, or |
| strength ^or beauty we build, we ? better build; |
| We ^But really build Eidólons. |
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| [several words cut away] [or man, woman,?] |
| Its due Eidolon Out of each shape of life, |
| For From Of each corporeal bodily life, |
| Each atom ^duly surely gathered,—not a thought, |
| Emotion, deed, left out—issues at last, |
| to last. |
| Its The Its due Eidolon.? The Its ^Its full Eidolon |
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| The ostent evanescent, |
| The ostent is the dream; |
| Known or unknown, |
| The end ^summon of all the poet's an artist's moods, or |
| ? savan's studies long, |
| The Or warrior's, martyr's, hero's life toils |
| To fashion his Eidolon. |
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| The old, old urge, |
^To-day
Based on the ancient, higher |
pinnacles,; rise lo! on higher pinnacles |
| From Science & the modern ^still impell'd |
| The old, old urge, Eidolons |
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| Of current hours, & days, The present now & here |
^To-day's
Present Americas, ^now & here,
a busy, ^teeming, intricate whirl, |
| Of aggregate & segregate, & ^duly for over only thence releasing, |
| Present To-day's Eidolons |
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| Myriads & |
| The noiseless mystic myriads! |
| The infinite oceans where the |
| rivers empty! |
| The vital free existences, separate countless free identities like eyesight! |
S[about five letters deleted, illegible] Reality's Mystic Noiseless Eidolons! |
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| Not these |
| Not this the World, |
| Nor these the Universes—they the Universes, |
| Purport and end—ever the ^permanent life of life |
| Eidolons, Eidolons |
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| Beyond thy lectures, learn'd professor, |
^Beyond
Thy telescope, or microscope, |
Thy chyemistry, savan—[thy sur?] |
| Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy |
| Beyond thy microscope or telescope telescope or spectroscope, |
| savan —observer keen, |
| Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy— |
| beyond all chemistry, |
? Real, as they [as all?] Viewless at least, ^rReal |
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| Tallies of Time |
The vVaried, infinite & Unfixed, yet fixed, |
SoEver have been, to be,—ever shall be, have been, and are, |
Boundless with as tTime ? & tallying filling space, |
| Eidolons, Eidolons. |
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| The prophet & the bard, |
| Sh Yet, Shall yet maintain themselves— ^—in higher stages yet or new or old, |
Yet Shall ^only
mediate ^to Democracy, at the ^last
— ^to the Modern—to its interpret yet to them |
| God and Eidolons. |
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| For ^ ^And thee, for thee, O Soul, |
| Joys, ceaseless exercises exaltations |
| Thy yearnings ^amply met at last— ^thy with due prepared mystic |
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| Thy ^prepared mystic mates, Eidolons. |
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| While of thy varied songs, |
| No special strains thou sing'st— |
| —or this, or that, |
| None for itself—but from the Whole |
to rise and float ^fore'er
in space, |
| A round full-orb'd Eidolon. |
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| Of ^visible forms and |
| Forms disappear |
| Rocks, mountains, crumbling |
| lost in time, |
| Eidolons everlasting. |
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