Quote #8

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - I keep it, staying at Home- With a Bobolink for a Chorister - And an Orchard, for a Dome-

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  1. The Soul selects her own Society - Then - shuts the Door - To her divine Majority - Present no more -
  2. God preaches, a noted Clergyman - And the sermon is never long, So instead of getting to Heaven, at last- I'm going, all along.
  3. How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell one's name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!
  4. This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty Her Message is committed To …
  5. I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - Too?
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  8. Dreams - are well - but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn - If One wake at Midnight - better - Dreaming - of the Dawn -

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