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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

VI. Human Experience

Found Wanting

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

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.