Read the poem: “The Monument”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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The Moon > > >

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The Monument

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She laid her docile crescent down,

   And this mechanic stone

Still states, to dates that have forgot,

   The news that she is gone.

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So constant to its stolid trust,

   The shaft that never knew,

It shames the constancy that fled

   Before its emblem flew.

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The Moon > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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