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Emily Dickinson
life and art
FALSESome keep the Sabbath going to Church —I keep it, staying at Home —With a Bobolink1 for a Chorister2 —And an Orchard, for a Dome —
Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice3 —I just wear my Wings —And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church,Our little Sexton4 — sings.
God preaches, a noted Clergyman —And the sermon is never long,So instead of getting to Heaven, at last —I'm going, all along.
1. bobolink: a common North American songbird.
2. chorister: a singer in a choir
3. a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
4. sexton: an official of a church charged with taking care of the edifice and its contents, ringing the bell, etc., and sometimes with burying the dead.
Put down the apple AdamAnd come away with meSo shal’t thou have a pippin1
From off my Father’s tree!
1.) pippin: any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.
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My lost by sickness — Was it Loss?Or that Etherial1 Gain —One earns by measuring the Grave Then — measuring the Sun.
1.) ethereal: heavenly or celestial; extremely delicate or refined.
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