Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they throng; they glitter in marches.
Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches,
Shivelights and shadowtackle in long ' lashes lace, lance, and pair.
Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ' ropes, wrestles, beats earth
Of yestertempest's creases; in pool and rut peel
Squandering ooze to squeezed ' dough, crust, dust; stanches,
Squadroned masks and manmarks ' treadmire toil
Footfretted in it.
Million-fuelèd, ' nature's bonfire burns on.
But quench her bonniest, dearest ' to her, her clearest-selvèd
Man, how fast his firedint, ' his mark on mind, is gone!
Both are in an unfathomable, all is in an enormous
Drowned.
O pity and indig ' nation!
Manshape, that
Sheer off, disseveral, a star, ' death blots black out; nor mark Is any of him at all so
But vastness blurs and time ' beats level.
Enough! the Resurrection,
A heart's-clarion!
Away grief's gasping, ' joyless days, dejection. Across my foundering deck shoneA beacon, an eternal beam. ' Flesh fade, and mortal
Fall to the residuary worm; ' world's wildfire, leave but ash: In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am,
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.
