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Read the poem: “If the foolish call them ‘flowers”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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If the foolish call them ‘flowers


If the foolish call them ‘flowers,’

   Need the wiser tell?

If the savans ‘classify’ them,

   It is just as well!


Those who read the Revelations

   Must not criticise

Those who read the same edition

   With beclouded eyes!


Could we stand with that old Moses

   Canaan denied, —

Scan, like him, the stately landscape

   On the other side, —


Doubtless we should deem superfluous

   Many sciences

Not pursued by learnèd angels

   In scholastic skies!


Low amid that glad

Belles lettres

   Grant that we may stand,

Stars, amid profound Galaxies,

   At that grand ‘Right hand’!



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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson



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