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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part One: Life XVIII |
| READ, sweet, how others strove, | |
| Till we are stouter; | |
| What they renounced, | |
| Till we are less afraid; | |
| How many times they bore | 5 |
| The faithful witness, | |
| Till we are helped, | |
| As if a kingdom cared! | |
| Read then of faith | |
| That shone above the fagot; | 10 |
| Clear strains of hymn | |
| The river could not drown; | |
| Brave names of men | |
| And celestial women, | |
| Passed out of record | 15 |
| Into renown! |
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