Obituary for Emily Dickinson 11

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She must make the her revelation
So her life was rich, and
all aglow with God and
immortality- with no creed
- no formulated faith, hardly
knowing the names of dogmas
she walked this life, with
the gentleness and reverence
of old saints, with the firm
step of martyrs who sing
while they suffer. How better
note the flight of this "Soul
of fire in a shell of pearl"
than by her own breathings
Morns like these, we parted