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Lyric Poem · Nature

If the foolish, call them "flowers"

by Emily Dickinson

If the foolish, call them "flowers" —

Need the wiser, tell?

If the Savants "Classify" them

It is just as well!

Those who read the "Revelations"

Must not criticize

Those who read the same Edition —

With beclouded Eyes!

Could we stand with that Old "Moses" —

"Canaan" denied —

Scan like him, the stately landscape

On the other side —

Doubtless, we should deem superfluous

Many Sciences,

Not pursued by learned Angels

In scholastic skies!

Low amid that glad Belles lettres

Grant that we may stand,

Stars, amid profound Galaxies —

At that grand "Right hand"!

This poem is in the public domain.

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