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Getting past the unusual syntax is the first task in reading much of
Dickinson. I this poem she states a simple truth that it is not that we
acted according to our powers of volition, but whether we acted in a
"righteous" manner, is how our Lord (lord) will judge how our actions met
the test of the divine that we are capable of within ourselves.
art chapman from United States