We Can But Follow to the Sun, by Emily Dickinson

We Can But Follow to the Sun

920

We can but follow to the Sun—

As oft as He go down

He leave Ourselves a Sphere behind—

’Tis mostly—following—

We go no further with the Dust

Than to the Earthen Door—

And then the Panels are reversed—

And we behold—no more.

566 A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink— I hunted all the Sand— I caught the Dripping of a Rock And bore it in my Hand—

The show is not the show, But they that go. Menagerie to me My neighbor be. Fair play—

49 I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!

182 If I shouldn’t be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next

380 There is a flower that Bees prefe… And Butterflies—desire— To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming Bird—aspire—

164 Mama never forgets her birds, Though in another tree— She looks down just as often And just as tenderly

41 I robbed the Woods— The trusting Woods. The unsuspecting Trees Brought out their Burs and mosses

45 There’s something quieter than sle… Within this inner room! It wears a sprig upon its breast— And will not tell its name.

LXII BEFORE I got my eye put out, I liked as well to see As other creatures that have eyes, And know no other way.

XL THE thought beneath so slight a f… Is more distinctly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the Apennine.

447 Could—I do more—for Thee— Wert Thou a Bumble Bee— Since for the Queen, have I— Nought but Bouquet?

893 Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb— Or Dome of Worm— Or Porch of Gnome—

If you were coming in the fall, I’d brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spum, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year,

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