Poems by Emily Dickinson | ||
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[IX. Drowning is not so pitiful]
Drowning is not so pitifulAs the attempt to rise.
Three times, 't is said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode
Where hope and he part company,—
For he is grasped of God.
The Maker's cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.
Poems by Emily Dickinson | ||