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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Faith" is fine invention (185)


              1"Faith" is a fine invention
              2For gentlemen who see,
              3But Microscopes are prudent
              4In an emergency!


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin in volumes (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981; PS 1541 A1 1981 ROBA): I, 186, 230.
First publication date: 1891
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1997.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/3

Composition date: 1860
Rhyme: abcb


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