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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

XXXIII

THE SOUL’S superior instants

Occur to Her alone,

When friend and earth’s occasion

Have infinite withdrawn.

Or she, Herself, ascended

To too remote a height,

For lower recognition

Than Her Omnipotent.

This mortal abolition

Is seldom, but as fair

As Apparition—subject

To autocratic air.

Eternity’s disclosure

To favorites, a few,

Of the Colossal substance

Of immortality.