Eidólons.

(printed in Two Rivulets 1876)

I met a Seer,

Passing the hues and objects of the
world,

The ? sweets ? fruits ? joys ? fields ? fruits of art , material joys & learning, pleasure,
& sense

To glean Eidólons

Put in thy chant, said he.

No more the visible human fleeting, fractional face
or limb,

Nor hour, nor day—no _^segments, parts put in,
Put in Eidólons only.

Lo! I or you,

Or _^Woman, Man _^ of us, or State, known or unknown

While _^We seeming solid _^ beauty, wealth, or
strength _^or beauty we build, we ^? better build,

We _^But really build Eidólons.

[cut away] [or man, woman,?]

Its due Eidolon Out of each shape of life,

For From Of each corporeal bodily life,

Each atom _^ duly surely gathered,—not a thought,

Emotion, deed, left out—issues at last,
to last.

Its The Its due Eidolon.

? The _^Its full Eidolon

The ostent evanescent,

The ostent is the dream;

Known or unknown,

The end _^summon of all the poet's an artist's moods, or
^? savan's studies long,

The Or warrior's, martyr's, hero's life toils

To fashion his Eidolon.

The old, old urge,

_^ To-day Based on the ancient, higher
pinnacles,; rise lo! on higher pinnacles

From Science & the modern _^still impell'd

The old, old urge, Eidolons

The present now & here Of current hours, & days,

_^ To-day's Present Americas, _^ now & here, a busy, _^teeming, intricate whirl,

Of aggregate & segregate, & _^ duly for over duly thence releasing,

Present To-day's Eidolons

Myriads &

The noiseless mystic myriads!

The infinite oceans where the
rivers empty!

The vital free existences, separate countless free identities like eyesight!

[Spaces?] Reality's Mystic Noiseless Eidolons!

Not these

Not this the World,

Nor these the Universes—they the Universes,

Purport and end—ever the _^permanent life of life

Eidolons, Eidolons

Beyond thy lectures, learn'd professor,

_^ Beyond Thy telescope, or microscope,

Thy chyemistry, savan—[thy sur?]

Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy

Beyond thy microscope or telescope telescope or spectroscope,
savan —observer keen,

Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy—
beyond all chemistry,

? Real, as they, [as all?] Viewless at least, _^ rReal Identities— The real entities—Eidolons.

Tallies of Time

The vVaried, infinite & Unfixed, yet fixed,

So Ever have been, to be,— ever shall be, have been, and are,

Boundless with as tTime ^? & tallying filling space,

Eidolons, Eidolons.

The prophet & the bard,

Sh Yet, Shall yet maintain themselves—_^—in higher stages yet or new or old,

Yet Shall only mediate _^to Democracy, at the _^ last — _^^to the Modern— to its interpret yet to them

God and Eidolons.

For _^And thee, for thee, O Soul,

Joys, ceaseless exercises exaltations

Thy yearnings _^amply met at last—_^ thy with due prepared mystic
companions,

Thy _^ prepared mystic mates, Eidolons.

While of thy varied songs,

No special strains thou sing'st—
—or this, or that,

None for itself—but from the Whole
to rise and float _^ fore'er in space,

A round full-orb'd Eidolon.