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First Line: Climbing is easy and swift on parnassus!
Last Line: My pipe was still warm in my hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Booksellers; Bookstores


CLIMBING is easy and swift on Parnassus!
Knocking my pipe out, I entered a bookshop;
There found a book of verse by a young poet.
Comrades at once, how I saw his mind glowing!
Saw in his soul its magnificent rioting --
Then I ran with him on hills that were windy,
Basked and laughed with him on sun-dazzled beaches,
Glutted myself on his green and blue twilights,
Watched him disposing his planets in patterns,
Tumbling his colors and toys all before him.
I questioned life with him, his pulses my pulses;
Doubted his doubts, too, and grieved for his anguishes.
Salted long kinship and knew him from boyhood --
Pulled out my own sun and stars from my knapsack,
Trying my trinkets with those of his finding --
And as I left the bookshop
My pipe was still warm in my hand.





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