Religion
A solemn thing it was, I said
Religion
A solemn thing it was, I said,
A woman white to be,
And wear, if God should count me fit,
Her hallowed mystery.
A timid thing to drop a life
Into the purple well,
Too plummetless that it come back
Eternity until.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “A solemn thing it was, I said.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/357/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “A solemn thing it was, I said.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/357/.
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