Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| WHEN I was small, a woman died. | |
| To-day her only boy | |
| Went up from the Potomac, | |
| His face all victory, | |
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| To look at her; how slowly | 5 |
| The seasons must have turned | |
| Till bullets clipt an angle, | |
| And he passed quickly round! | |
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| If pride shall be in Paradise | |
| I never can decide; | 10 |
| Of their imperial conduct, | |
| No person testified. | |
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| But proud in apparition, | |
| That woman and her boy | |
| Pass back and forth before my brain, | 15 |
| As ever in the sky. | |
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