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| Circuit IV - (24) (Preface) There is a Solitude of Space (J-1695) (F-1696) | |||||
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(1) There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea (2) A solitude of death, but these Society shall be (3) Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy (4) A soul admitted to itself — Finite infinity. ~ Emily Dickinson 
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| Commentary adapted from Emily Dickinson's Poems & Letters | |||||
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(1-4)
"Opinion is a flitting thing,
but truth outlasts the sun —
if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one." ~ (L #625) (J-1455) (F-1495) | |||||
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(1-4)
"Between my country — and the others —
there is a sea — but flowers — negotiate between us — as ministry." ~(J-0905) (F-0829) | |||||
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(2-3)
"Truth like ancestors' brocades can stand alone." ~ (L #368) (ref. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Ch. 12, "a brocaded gown that would stand up empty, like a suit of armour.") | |||||
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(2-4)
"'Where thou goest, we will go' — how mutual, how intimate! No solitude receives him, but neighborhood and friend." ~ (L #732) (Biblical ref. Ruth 1:16-17) | |||||
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(3)
"On my volcano grows the grass, a meditative spot — an acre for a bird to choose would be the general thought — How red the Fire rocks below — how insecure the sod did I disclose would populate with awe my solitude." ~ (J-1677) (F-1743) | |||||
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(3-4)
"With thee, in the Desert — With thee in the thirst — with thee in the Tamarind wood — Leopard breathes — at last!" ~ (J-0209) (F-0201) (Biblical ref. Ruth 1:16-17) (Buddhist ref: The Tamarind Tree, Edgar Allan Poe ref. on Science) | |||||
| (3-4) "Only a pond Lily that I tilled myself —" ~ (L #760) | |||||
| (3-4) "The little garden within, though tiny, is triumphant." ~ (L #969) | |||||
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(4)
"The sanctity of rapture / to be —" ~ (J 1358) (F-1388) | |||||
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(4)
"Like fabrics of the East . . . that one should comprehend the worth was all the price there was." ~ (J-1446) (F-1471) | |||||
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(4)
"Tis compound vision — light — enabling light — the finite — furnished with the infinite." ~ (J-0906) (F-0830) | |||||
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