Emily Dickinson
Read—Sweet—how others—strove
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Read—Sweet—how others—strove
Till we—are stouter
What they—renounced
Till we—are less afraid
How many times they—bore the faithful witness
Till we—are helped
As if a Kingdom—cared!

Read then—of faith
That shone above the fagot
Clear strains of Hymn
The River could not drown
Brave names of Men
And Celestial Women
Passed out—of Record
Into—Renown!