No Life can pompless pass away --
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here --
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Better than on a Dream intrude
To scrutinize the Sleep.
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How red the Fire rocks below --
How insecure the sod
Did I disclose
Would populate with awe my solitude.
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Nature is what we know Yet have not art to say So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
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Said Passion, through contracting Breaths
"A Thousand Times Thee Nay.
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Nor when it altered, I could say,
For I had worn it, every day,
As constant as the Childish frock --
I hung upon the Peg, at night.
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My dazzled face
In such a shining place!
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