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Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part One: Life

XXV

BELSHAZZAR had a letter,—
He never had but one;
Belshazzar’s correspondent
Concluded and begun
In that immortal copy        5
The conscience of us all
Can read without its glasses
On revelation’s wall.

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