Returning is a different route
The Spirit could not show
For breathing is the only work
To be enacted now.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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With inference appalling
By Childhood fortified
We thought, at least they are no worse
Than they have been described.
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Truth is such a rare thing, it is a delight to tell it.
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Peter, put up the sunshine;
Patti, arrange the stars;
Tell Luna, tea is waiting,
And call your brother Mars!
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Adventure most unto itself
The Soul condemned to be --
Attended by a single Hound
Its own identity.
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