letters from dickinson to mabel loomis todd


early August 1884


How martial the Apology of Nature! We die, said the Deathless of Thermopylae, in obedience to Law.

Not Sickness stains the Brave,
Nor any Dart,
Nor Doubt of Scene to come,
But an adjourning Heart -


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