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Lyric Poem · Nature

The Heaven vests for Each

by Emily Dickinson

The Heaven vests for Each

In that small Deity

It craved the grace to worship

Some bashful Summer's Day —

Half shrinking from the Glory

It importuned to see

Till these faint Tabernacles drop

In full Eternity —

How imminent the Venture —

As one should sue a Star —

For His mean sake to leave the Row

And entertain Despair —

A Clemency so common —

We almost cease to fear —

Enabling the minutest —

And furthest — to adore —

This poem is in the public domain.

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