Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| A TRIUMPH may be of several kinds. | |
| There ’s triumph in the room | |
| When that old imperator, Death, | |
| By faith is overcome. | |
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| There ’s triumph of the finer mind | 5 |
| When truth, affronted long, | |
| Advances calm to her supreme, | |
| Her God her only throng. | |
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| A triumph when temptation’s bribe | |
| Is slowly handed back, | 10 |
| One eye upon the heaven renounced | |
| And one upon the rack. | |
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| Severer triumph, by himself | |
| Experienced, who can pass | |
| Acquitted from that naked bar, | 15 |
| Jehovah’s countenance! | |
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