Sweet Mountains -- Ye tell Me no lie --

Portrait of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
722Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Sweet Mountains -- Ye tell Me no lie -- Never deny Me -- Never fly -- Those same unvarying Eyes Turn on Me -- when I fail -- or feign, Or take the Royal names in vain -- Their far -- slow -- Violet Gaze --

My Strong Madonnas -- Cherish still -- The Wayward Nun -- beneath the Hill -- Whose service -- is to You -- Her latest Worship -- When the Day Fades from the Firmament away -- To lift Her Brows on You --

From the bookComplete Poems of Emily DickinsonEdited by Thomas H. Johnson (Little, Brown)

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