An ignorance a Sunset
Confer upon the Eye --
Of Territory -- Color --
Circumference -- Decay --

Its Amber Revelation
Exhilirate -- Debase --
Omnipotence' inspection
Of Our inferior face --

And when the solemn features
Confirm -- in Victory --
We start -- as if detected
In Immortality --

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 552. An ignorance a Sunset
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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