Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
Correspondence with Susan Dickinson


H 289
Musicians wrestling Everywhere!
All day - among the Crowded Air
I hear the silver strife -
And waking, long before the morn
Such Transport breaks upon the Town
I think it that "New Life"!

It is not Bird - it has no Nest -
Nor "Band", in Brass and 
Scarlet- drest -
Nor Tamborin -nor Man.
It is not Hymn from pulpit read -
The Morning Stars - the Treble led
On Time's first Afternoon!

Some say - it is the "Spheres" at play!
Some say - that bright Majority
Of vanished Dames - and Men -
Some think it service in the place
Where we- with late- celestial face -
Please God - shall Ascertain!
		Emily.

 

H 289


Close-Up Verso Notes
Search index

Dickinson Electronic Archives Main Menu


Image reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Not to be reproduced in whole or in part without permission.
Transcription and commentary copyright 1996 by Martha Nell Smith, all rights reserved
Last updated on June 25, 1998
Maintained by Tanya Clement <tclement@umd.edu>