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Poems on Faith
by Emily Dickinson

"FAITH" IS A FINE INVENTION

 "Faith" is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.

THE CHILD'S FAITH IS NEW

The Child's faith is new
Whole like His Principle
Wide like the Sunrise
On fresh Eyes
Never had a Doubt
Laughs at a Scruple
Believes all sham
But Paradise

Credits the World
Deems His Dominion
Broadest of Sovereignties
And Caesar mean
In the Comparison
Baseless Emperor
Ruler of Nought
Yet swaying all

Grown bye and bye
To hold mistaken
His pretty estimates
Of Prickly Things
He gains the skill
Sorrowful as certain
Men to anticipate
Instead of Kings

Faith is the Pierless Bridge

Faith is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not
Too slender for the eye

It bears the Soul as bold
As it were rocked in Steel
With Arms of Steel at either side
It joins behind the Veil

To what, could We presume
The Bridge would cease to be
To Our far, vacillating Feet
A first Necessity. 

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"Emily called Cape Jasmin the holiest flower that grows," her sister, Lavinia Dickinson, recalled, "She was in love with every wild flower, and when we were little children we used to spend entire days in the woods hunting for treasures The most delicate and rare flowers never failed to bloom for Emily, however impossible their rearing was to others."

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