Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
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Chapter 18 THE BOOK OF MARTYRS.

Read, sweet, how others strove,

Till we are stouter;

What they renounced,

Till we are less afraid;

How many times they bore

The faithful witness,

Till we are helped,

As if a kingdom cared!

Read then of faith

That shone above the fagot;

Clear strains of hymn

The river could not drown;

Brave names of men

And cel

            
            

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