The Emigrant of Light, it is
Afflicted for the Day.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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No Life can pompless pass away --The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here --
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His Labor is a Chant --
His Idleness -- a Tune --
Oh, for a Bee's experience
Of Clovers, and of Noon!
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So much of Heaven has gone from Earth
That there must be a Heaven
If only to enclose the Saints
To Affidavit given.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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And Something's odd - within -That person that I was - And this One - do not feel the same - Could it be Madness - this
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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