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Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Title
Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Co.
1914
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XI.

IF the foolish call them 'flowers,' Need the wiser tell? If the savans 'classify' them, It is just as well!
Those who read the Revelations Must not criticise Those who read the same edition With beclouded eyes!
Could we stand with that old Moses Canaan denied, — Scan, like him, the stately landscape On the other side, —
Doubtless we should deem superfluous Many sciences Not pursued by learnèd angels In scholastic skies!

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Low amid that glad Belles lettres Grant that we may stand, Stars, amid profound Galaxies, At that grand 'Right hand'!
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