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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236) ­ Poetry Foundation
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)
BY EMILY DICKINSON
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – I keep it, staying at Home – With a Bobolink for a Chorister – And an Orchard, for a Dome – Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice – I, just wear my Wings – And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church, Our little Sexton – sings. God preaches, a noted Clergyman – And the sermon is never long, So instead of getting to Heaven, at last – I’m going, all along. Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by R. W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)
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POET
Emily Dickinson
SUBJECTS
Religion, Christianity, God & the Divine
POET'S REGION
U.S., New England
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