Read the poem: “The Book of Martyrs”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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The Book of Martyrs

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Read, sweet, how others strove,

Till we are stouter;

What they renounced,

Till we are less afraid;

How many times they bore

The faithful witness,

Till we are helped,

As if a kingdom cared!

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Read then of faith

That shone above the fagot;

Clear strains of hymn

The river could not drown;

Brave names of men

And celestial women,

Passed out of record

Into renown!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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