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Rh Costlier far than wine or oil.

There 's a berry blue and gold,—

Autumn-ripe, its juices hold

Sparta's stoutness, Bethlehem's heart,

Asia's rancor, Athens' art,

Slowsure Britain's secular might,

And the German's inward sight.

I will give my son to eat

Best of Pan's immortal meat,

Bread to eat, and juice to drain;

So the coinage of his brain

Shall not be forms of stars, but stars,

Nor pictures pale, but Jove and Mars.

He comes, but not of that race bred

Who daily climb my specular head.

Oft as morning wreathes my scarf,

Fled the last plumule of the Dark,

Pants up hither the spruce clerk

From South Cove and City Wharf.

I take him up my rugged sides,

Half-repentant, scant of breath,—

Bead-eyes my granite chaos show,

And my midsummer snow:

Open the daunting map beneath,—

All his county, sea and land,

Dwarfed to measure of his hand;

His day's ride is a furlong space,

His city-tops a glimmering haze.

I plant his eyes on the sky-hoop bounding;