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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 25 of 446 · First Series: Life

Poem 25

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Belshazzar had a letter, -- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondent Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

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