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 Rh but observe;although once is never the beginning of enough, is it(i do not pretend to know the reason any more than.) But look:up-

raising, hoisting, a little perhaps that and this, deftly propping on smallest hands the slim hinging you —because it’s five o’clock

and these(i notice) trees winterbrief surly old gurgle a nonsense of sparrows, the cathedral shudders blackening; the sky is washed with tone

now for a moon to squat in first darkness —a little moon thinner than

memory

faint -er than all the whys which lurk between your naked shoulderblades.—Here

comes a stout fellow in a blouse just outside this window, touching the glass

boxes one by one with his magic stick(in which a willing 84