If the foolish, call them flowers
Emily Dickinson
Track 11 on Third Series
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If the foolish, call them flowers Lyrics
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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 criticize
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
Grant that we may stand
Stars, amid profound Galaxies
At that grand "Right hand"!
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 criticize
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
Grant that we may stand
Stars, amid profound Galaxies
At that grand "Right hand"!
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- 1.Real Riches
- 3.Hope
- 11.If the foolish, call them flowers
- 12.A Syllable
- 13.Parting
- 14.Aspiration
- 15.The Inevitable
- 16.A Book
- 18.A Portrait
- 23.The Lost Thought
- 24.Reticence
- 25.With Flowers
- 28.Contrast
- 29.Friends
- 30.Fire
- 31.A Man
- 32.Ventures
- 33.Griefs
- 35.Disenchantment
- 36.Lost Faith
- 37.Lost Joy
- 40.Alpine Glow
- 41.Remembrance
- 43.The Brain
- 45.The Past
- 48.Desire
- 49.Philosophy
- 50.Power
- 53.Experience
- 54.Thanksgiving Day
- 55.Childish Griefs
- 56.Consecration
- 57.Love’s Humility
- 58.Love
- 59.Satisfied
- 60.With A Flower
- 61.Song
- 62.Loyalty
- 65.Forgotten
- 67.The Master
- 72.Who?
- 74.Dreams
- 75.Numen Lumen
- 76.Nature’s changes
- 77.The Tulip
- 79.The Waking Year
- 81.March
- 82.Dawn (Version 2)
- 86.A Rose
- 88.Cobwebs
- 89.A Well
- 93.The Woodpecker
- 94.Snake
- 96.The Moon
- 97.The Bat
- 98.The Balloon
- 99.Evening
- 100.Cocoon
- 101.Sunset
- 102.Aurora
- 103.The Coming Of Night
- 104.Aftermath
- 109.Ending
- 114.Immortality
- 117.Death
- 118.Unwarned
- 121.Asleep
- 123.The Monument
- 131.Invisible
- 133.Trying To Forget
- 136.Waiting
- 140.Farewell
- 142.Dead
- 147.Joy In Death
- 154.The Soul’s Storm
- 156.Thirst
- 162.Retrospect
- 163.Eternity
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