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Dickinson, Emily - The lonesome for they know not what
Identifier
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Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
The lonesome for they know not what
The eastern exiles be
Who stayed beyond the amber line
Some madder Holiday
And ever since, the purple moat
They strive to climb, in vain
As birds that tumble from the clouds
Do fumble at the strain
The Blessed Ether, taught them
Some transatlantic morn
When heaven was too common to miss
Too sure to dote upon
My faith is larger than the hills
So when the hills decay
My faith must take the purple wheel
To show the sun the way
……………
How dare I, therefore, stint a faith
On which so vast depends
Lest firmament should fail for me
The rivet in the bands
The source of the experience
Dickinson, EmilyConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
AetherScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
GriefLead poisoning
Suppressions
Communing with natureInherited genes
Reducing threats
Commonsteps
References
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson