Choice

II.

LOVE.

I.

CHOICE.

OF all the souls that stand create

      I have elected one.

When sense from spirit files away,

And subterfuge is done;

When that which is and that which was

Apart, intrinsic, stand,

And this brief tragedy of flesh

Is shifted like a sand;

When figures show their royal front

And mists are carved away,–

Behold the atom I preferred

To all the lists of clay!