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Emily Dickinson

1459

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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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1879

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