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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Going to heaven!

GOING TO HEAVEN!

by: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

GOING to heaven!
I don't know when,
Pray do not ask me how,--
Indeed, I'm too astonished
To think of answering you!
Going to heaven!--
How dim it sounds!
And yet it will be done
As sure as flocks go home at night
Unto the shepherd's arm!

Perhaps you're going too!
Who knows?
If you should get there first,
Save just a little place for me
Close to the two I lost!
The smallest "robe" will fit me,
And just a bit of "crown";
For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home.

I'm glad I don't believe it,
For it would stop my breath,
And I'd like to look a little more
At such a curious earth!
I am glad they did believe it
Whom I have never found
Since the mighty autumn afternoon
I left them in the ground.





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8 comments:

  1. I love this. I'm not religious at all but I honestly do. Heaven's comment made me crack up too, very well played there Heaven!

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  2. lol @ Heaven's comment. I hope Heaven is like they portrayed in in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

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  3. I love Dickinson. Does a bitter old man's heart good.

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  4. Great poem about death and Heaven. After one awaits the other.

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  5. this is a great space! love emily dickinson
    www.elisabettarain.com

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