Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part One: Life
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| IF the foolish call them “flowers”, | |
| Need the wiser tell? | |
| If the savants “classify” them, | |
| It is just as well! | |
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| Those who read the Revelations | 5 |
| Must not criticise | |
| Those who read the same edition | |
| With beclouded eyes! | |
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| Could we stand with that old Moses | |
| Canaan denied,— | 10 |
| Scan, like him, the stately landscape | |
| On the other side,— | |
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| Doubtless we should deem superfluous | |
| Many sciences | |
| Not pursued by learned angels | 15 |
| In scholastic skies! | |
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| Low amid that glad Belles lettres | |
| Grant that we may stand, | |
| Stars, amid profound Galaxies, | |
| At that grand “Right hand”! | 20 |
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