Of Bronze -- and Blaze by Emily Dickinson
Of Bronze -- and Blaze -- The North -- Tonight -- So adequate -- it forms -- So preconcerted with itself -- So distant -- to alarms -- And Unconcern so sovereign To Universe, or me -- Infects my simple spirit With Taints of Majesty -- Till I take vaster attitudes -- And strut upon my stem -- Disdaining Men, and Oxygen, For Arrogance of them --
My Splendors, are Menagerie -- But their Completeless Show Will entertain the Centuries When I, am long ago, An Island in dishonored Grass -- Whom none but Beetles -- know.
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