Emily Dickinson
Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Early October 1883
Dear Sue -
The Vision of Immortal Life has been fulfilled - How simply at
The last the Fathom comes! The Passenger and not the Sea, we find surprises us - Gilbert rejoiced in Secrets - His Life was
Panting with them - With what menace of Light he cried "Dont tell, Aunt Emily"! Now my ascended Playmate must instruct me
Show us, prattling Preceptor, but the way to thee! He knew no
N***ard moment - His Life was full of Boon - The Playthings of the Dervish were not so wild as his - No Crescent was this Creature - He traveled from the Full Such soar, but never set - I see him in the Star, and meet his sweet velocity in everything that flies - His Life was like the Bugle, which winds itself away
His Elegy an Echo - his Requiem Ecstacy - Dawn and Meridian in one
Wherefore would he wait, wronged only of Night, which he left for us - Without a speculation, our little Ajax spans the whole -Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light, Pangless except
For us, Who slowly ford the Mystery Which thou hast
Leaped across!
Emily -