More Life — went out — when He went
Than Ordinary Breath –
Lit with a finer Phosphor –
Requiring in the Quench –
A Power of Renowned Cold,
The Climate of the Grave
A Temperature just adequate
So Anthracite, to live –
For some — an Ampler Zero –
A Frost more needle keen
Is necessary, to reduce
The Ethiop within.
Others — extinguish easier –
A Gnat’s minutest Fan
Sufficient to obliterate
A Tract of Citizen –
Whose Peat lift — amply vivid –
Ignores the solemn News
That Popocatapel exists –
Or Etna’s Scarlets, Choose –
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