Earth at the best
Is but a scanty Toy --
Bought, carried Home
To Immortality.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Glows Central -- like a JewelBetween Diverging Golds --
The Minor One -- that gleamed behind --
And Vaster -- of the World's.
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Of course I prayed--and did God careHe cared as much as on the airA bird had stamped her footAnd cried Give me
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Sunset that screens, reveals --
Enhancing what we see
By menaces of Amethyst
And Moats of Mystery.
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To imitate these Neighbors fleet
In awe and innocence, were meet.
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Except Thyself may be
Thine Enemy --
Captivity is Consciousness --
So's Liberty.
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Or a leaving Home, or later,
Parting with a World
We have understood for better
Still to be explained.
Emily Dickinson
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