In the Morning

Chapter 41: PAUSES AND CLAUSES.

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A sequence of lyric poems that meditates on dawn, nature, and spiritual feeling, often deploying mountain, forest, and seaside imagery to probe grief, consolation, and renewal. Poems move among quiet pastorals, occasional and domestic verse, devotional hymns, translations, and lighter nonsense pieces, following seasonal rhythms and holiday observances. The voice shifts between elegiac introspection and bright affirmation, favoring sensory detail—birdsong, running water, sunlight—and a consolatory outlook that finds moral and emotional sustenance in simple scenes and ritual moments.

PAUSES AND CLAUSES.

TO MY LITTLE NIECE, KITTIE.

[With a Maltese Kitten.]

Kittie Mabel, will you take

This gift, for the giver’s sake?

Verse and song and roundelay

Will be yours this merry day;

Mine are all unfit to send,

Tattered rhymes, too poor to mend.

But, although I haven’t any

Songs, my thoughts are swift and many.

All are flying straight to you,

And your heart, so sweet and true,

I am sure, dear, won’t decline

This small, furry Valentine.