Nature and God -- I neither knew
Yet Both so well knew me
They startled, like Executors
Of My identity.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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With inference appallingBy Childhood fortified
We thought, at least they are no worse
Than they have been described.
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The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
With confidential moan --
Not mended by Mortality
Are Fabrics truly torn --
To go its convalescent way
So shameless is to see
More genuine were Perfidy
Than such Fidelity.
Emily Dickinson
Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence
As Gold the Pyrites would shun --
What confusion would cover the innocent Jesus
To meet so enabled a Man!
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
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To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe.
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
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