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Tuesday, February 14, 2019: Due to our reliance on the Amherst College network, which is currently down, the Museum has been without access to phone and email since Monday. We apologize for any inconvenience to those of you who have tried to reach us, and will return communications as quickly as possible once the situation is resolved.
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This was a Poet -
It is That
Distills amazing sense
From Ordinary Meanings -
And Attar so immense
From that familiar species
That perished by the Door -
We wonder it was not Ourselves
Arrested it - before -
Of Pictures, the Discloser -
The Poet - it is He -
Entitles Us - by Contrast -
To ceaseless Poverty -
Of Portion - so unconscious -
The Robbing - could not harm -
Himself - to Him - a Fortune -
Exterior - to Time -
F. 446 Reprinted by permission.
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