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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 78 of 446 · First Series: Time and Eternity

Astra Castra

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Departed to the judgment, A mighty afternoon; Great clouds like ushers leaning, Creation looking on.

The flesh surrendered, cancelled, The bodiless begun; Two worlds, like audiences, disperse And leave the soul alone.

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