Read the poem: “Bequest”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
< < < Belshazzar had a letter, —
Bless God, he went as soldiers > > >

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Bequest

You left me, sweet, two legacies, —

A legacy of love

A Heavenly Father would content,

Had He the offer of;

You left me boundaries of pain

Capacious as the sea,

Between eternity and time,

Your consciousness and me.

< < < Belshazzar had a letter, —
Bless God, he went as soldiers > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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