"Abode in as supreme"
Perse, Holub, Dickinson, Stanford
St.-John Perse (tr. from French by Hugh Chisholm):
Miroslav Holub (tr. from Czech by Ewald Osers):
Emily Dickinson:
The way / Hope builds his / House / It is not with a sill - / Nor Rafter - has that /
Edifice / But only Pinnacle - // Abode in as supreme / This superficies / As if it were of Ledges smit / And Or mortised with the / Laws -
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