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ORIGINAL POEMS: Fascicle 6Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily DickinsonDickinsonThomas H. JohnsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1960The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Centenary EditionEmily DickinsonMartha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete HampsonBostonLittle, Brown, and Company1930Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's PoemsEmily DickinsonThomas H. JohnsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1961Poems, First SeriesEmily DickinsonMabel loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth HigginsonBostonRoberts Brothers1890oems by Emily Dickinson, First Series (html version)
Poem 12 (J 216: 1830-1886)Safe in their Alabaster Chambersalabaster chambers—,Untouched by morningMorningMorning— and untouched by noon,And untouched by Noon—Sleep the meek members of the Resurrectionresurrection—,Rafter of Satinsatin,— and roof of stone.And Roof of stone.Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;In her Castle above them—Babbles the Beebee in a stolid Earear,;Pipe the Sweet Birdssweet birds in ignorant cadence—,—Ah, what sagacity perished here!Grand go the years in the cresent above them;Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row,Diadems drop and Doges surrender,Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.