aplomb’d
and
sums all gain’d
tarnish stains
before sun’s rise
otherwise
shake shake quake
and who still speaketh
maps and
legends
straydogs will bark a collar
truenorthavenue: "In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, Simplify." h.d. Thoreau