Astra Castra

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III. ASTRA CASTRA

Departed to the judgment,
A mighty afternoon ;
Great clouds like ushers leaning,
Creation looking on.

The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The bodiless begun ;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.


 
from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)


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