Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
IV
|
| SAFE in their alabaster chambers, | |
| Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, | |
| Sleep the meek members of the resurrection, | |
| Rafter of satin, and roof of stone. | |
| |
| Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine; | 5 |
| Babbles the bee in a stolid ear; | |
| Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence,— | |
| Ah, what sagacity perished here! | |
| |
| Grand go the years in the crescent above them; | |
| Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row, | 10 |
| Diadems drop and Doges surrender, | |
| Soundless as dots on a disk of snow. | |
|
|
