Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| GOING to heaven! | |
| I don’t know when, | |
| Pray do not ask me how,— | |
| Indeed, I ’m too astonished | |
| To think of answering you! | 5 |
| Going to heaven!— | |
| How dim it sounds! | |
| And yet it will be done | |
| As sure as flocks go home at night | |
| Unto the shepherd’s arm! | 10 |
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| Perhaps you ’re going too! | |
| Who knows? | |
| If you should get there first, | |
| Save just a little place for me | |
| Close to the two I lost! | 15 |
| The smallest “robe” will fit me, | |
| And just a bit of “crown”; | |
| For you know we do not mind our dress | |
| When we are going home. | |
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| I ’m glad I don’t believe it, | 20 |
| For it would stop my breath, | |
| And I ’d like to look a little more | |
| At such a curious earth! | |
| I am glad they did believe it | |
| Whom I have never found | 25 |
| Since the mighty autumn afternoon | |
| I left them in the ground. | |
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