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THEIR HEIGHT IN HEAVEN COMFORTS NOT by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: "Keeps pleading — ""I don't know."
Subject(s): HEAVEN;

Their Height in Heaven comforts not -
Their Glory - nought to me -
'Twas best imperfect - as it was -
I'm finite - I can't see -

The House of Supposition -
The Glimmering Frontier that
Skirts the Acres of Perhaps -
To Me - shows insecure -

The Wealth I had - contented me -
If 'twas a meaner size -
Then I had counted it until
It pleased my narrow Eyes -

Better than larger values -
That show however true -
This timid life of Evidence
Keeps pleading - "I don't know."



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