If the foolish call them “flowers”,
Need the wiser tell?
If the savants “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 learned angels
In scholastic skies!Low amid that glad Belles lettres
~Emily Dickinson
Grant that we may stand,
Stars, amid profound Galaxies,
At that grand “Right hand”!
“Faith” is a fine invention
~Emily Dickinson
For Gentlemen who see!
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency!
The second of these poems was our March 14 choice. You can read that short and snarky post here. When I read today’s poem, the first of the two, it immediately reminded me of the second one. It’s interesting to find two of Dickinson’s poems that seem to approach the same subject from two very different viewpoints. I don’t think they’re irreconcilable, but I couldn’t resist putting them side by side for comparison. What do you think?
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