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A solemn thing - it was - I said -

A woman - white - to be -

And wear - if God should count me fit -

Her blameless mystery -

A hallowed thing - to drop a life

Into the purple well -

Too plummetless - that it return -

Eternity - until -

I pondered how the bliss would look -

And would it feel as big -

When I could take it in my hand -

As hovering - seen - through fog -

And then - the size of this "small" life -

The Sages - call it small -

Swelled - like Horizons - in my vest -

And I sneered - softly - "small"!