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Gentle Amber

sunset glow

 

An Ignorance a Sunset
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An ignorance a Sunset
Confer upon the Eye—
Of Territory—Color—
Circumference—Decay—

Its Amber Revelation
Exhilirate—Debase—
Omnipotence’ inspection
Of Our inferior face—

And when the solemn features
Confirm—in Victory—
We start—as if detected
In Immortality—

Book: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

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