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Read the poem: “I read my sentence steadily”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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I read my sentence steadily

I read my sentence steadily,

Reviewed it with my eyes,

To see that I made no mistake

In its extremest clause, —

The date, and manner of the shame;

And then the pious form

That “God have mercy” on the soul

The jury voted him.

I made my soul familiar

With her extremity,

That at the last it should not be

A novel agony,

But she and Death, acquainted,

Meet tranquilly as friends,

Salute and pass without a hint —

And there the matter ends.


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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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