Publikaasje – is it Boelguod
Fan de Minske’ Geast –
Earmoed – kin Ferlechje wêze
Foar in ding sa kwea –
Mar Wy geane leaver – ynwyt –
Ut Us Nachtkertier
Nei de Wite Skepper op – as
Jild slaan – út Us Snie –
Tinken is fan Wa’t it jûn hat –
Dan – fan Wa’t it draacht
En belichemet – ferkeapje
Keninklike Lucht –
Kreas ferpakt – ferhannelje
Wat de Himel skinkt –
Mar ferpats gjin Geast by Ofslach
Foar in Priis dy’t krinkt –
Publication – is the Auction
Of the Mind of Man –
Poverty – be justifying
For so foul a thing
Possibly – but We – would rather
From Our Garret go
White – unto the White Creator –
Than invest – Our Snow –
Thought belong to Him who gave it –
Then – to Him Who bear
It’s Corporeal illustration – sell
The Royal Air –
In the Parcel – Be the Merchant
Of the Heavenly Grace –
But reduce no Human Spirit
To Disgrace of Price –
F788 (J709). Ofbylding: Foarplat fan de earste, postúm ferskynde útjefte fan Poems, Boston 1890. Dit eksimplaar hat fan Thomas Wentworth Higginson west, ien fan de beide editeurs. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.