BELSHAZZAR had a letter —
He never had but one;
Belshazzar’s correspondent
Concluded — and begun
In that immortal copy:
The conscience of us all
Can read without its glasses
On revelation’s wall.
First print Life XXV, 25
Johnson 1459 | Franklin 1487
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■→Poems, first print by Higginson and Todd, page 39;
Dash alone for thematic development, cf. Notes, for The Outlet; adjustment on punctuation, to avoid the impression there might be a conjunctive missing:
Concluded — and begun
In that immortal copy:
■Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
Poems one-by-one print and fascicle comparison,
■Resource for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
■Google Drive, manuscript fascicles.
Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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