[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 60]
Mercury.
I. 3-8-08
Oh I would be mercury
With {…} wings up my feet
The sight I cease him to be
Upon earth to {…} and gleet
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Up from earth, any, any,
The whole breath of upon amid
In a {…} with a bound
In the bosom of the day
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I might sleep up the air
Golden with the deathless sun
[60v]
And were but a week my life
In that † I’s gasp
The idea of being eternity in my clasp.
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