PROBLEMS - Bring me the sunset in a cup

Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadths of blue!

Write me how many notes there be
In the new robin's ecstasy
Among astonished boughs;
How many trips the tortoise makes,
How many cups the bee partakes, --
The debauchee of dews!

Also, who laid the rainbow's piers,
Also, who leads the docile spheres
By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite,
Who counts the wampum of the night,
To see that none is due?

Who built this little Alban house
And shut the windows down so close
My spirit cannot see?
Who 'll let me out some gala day,
With implements to fly away,
Passing pomposity?

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One of the ones that Midas touched, / Who failed to touch us all,

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We learn in the retreating

We learn in the retreating / How vast an one

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I CAN'T tell you, but you feel it

I CAN'T tell you, but you feel it– / Nor can you tell me,

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ASLEEP

ASLEEP. / As far from pity as complaint,

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