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
? fruits
of art, material joys
& learning, pleasure,
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| & sense |
| 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 ^
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or State, known or unknown |
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While
^
We
seeming solid ^
beauty, wealth, or
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| strength ^
or beauty
we build,
we ? better build;
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We
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But really
build Eidólons. |
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[or man, woman,?]
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Its due Eidolon
Out of each shape of life,
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For
From
Of each corporeal
bodily
life,
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| Each atom ^
duly
surely
gathered,—not a thought, |
| Emotion, deed, left out—issues at last, |
| to last. |
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Its
The
Its due Eidolon. Its due Eidolon.
? The The
Its
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Its full Eidolon
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| The ostent evanescent, |
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The ostent is the dream;
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Known or unknown,
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| The end
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summon
of all
the poet's
an artist's
moods, or |
| ? savan's studies long, |
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The
Or
warrior's, martyr's, hero's life
toils
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| To fashion his Eidolon. |
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| The old, old urge, |
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To-day Based on the ancient, higher
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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
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To-day's
Present
Americas, ^
now & here,
a busy, ^
teeming, intricate whirl, |
| Of aggregate & segregate, &
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duly
for over only
thence releasing, |
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Present
To-day's
Eidolons |
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Myriads &
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| The noiseless
mystic
myriads! |
| The infinite oceans where the |
| rivers empty! |
| The vital free existences,
separate countless free identities
like eyesight! |
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Reality's
Mystic
Noiseless
Eidolons! |
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Not these
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| 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, |
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Beyond Thy telescope, or microscope,
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Thy ch
y
e
mistry, savan—[thy sur?]
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Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy
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| 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, ^
r
Real Identities—
The real entities
—Eidolons. |
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Tallies of Time
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The
v
Varied, infinite
& Unfixed, yet fixed,
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So
Ever
have been,
to be,—
ever shall be,
have been,
and are, |
Boundless with
as
t
T
ime ? & tallying
filling
space, |
| Eidolons, Eidolons. |
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| The prophet & the bard, |
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Sh
Yet,
Shall
yet maintain themselves— ^
—in higher stages yet or new or old,
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Yet
Shall
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only mediate ^
to Democracy, at the at the
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last
—— ^
to the Modern—to its
interpret yet to them |
| God and Eidolons. |
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For
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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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| companions, |
| 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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| The savan—recks he |
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| Of ^
visible forms and |
| Forms disappear |
| Rocks, mountains, crumbling |
| lost in time, |
| Eidolons everlasting. |
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