Religion
Their height in heaven comforts not
Religion
Their height in heaven comforts not,
Their glory nought to me;
'T was 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 't was a meaner size,
Then I had counted it until
It pleased my narrow eyes
Better than larger values,
However true their show;
This timid life of evidence
Keeps pleading, "I don't know."
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Their height in heaven comforts not.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/253/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “Their height in heaven comforts not.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/253/.
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