Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Title
Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company
1910
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XXXVIII.
THE PREACHER.

HE preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow,— The broad are too broad to define; And of "truth" until it proclaimed him a liar, — The truth never flaunted a sign.
Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would cover the innocent Jesus To meet so enabled a man!

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