Tuesday, May 15, 2018

The tolling Belle of Amherst

Emily Dickinson died on this day in 1886. Here is a poem she wrote about her nephew, Gilbert, who died of rheumatic fever at age 8:

Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light,
Pangless except for us --
Who slowly ford the Mystery
Which thou hast leaped across!


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