dazzle gradually

It was National Poetry Day yesterday, and I found it really hard to choose between the poem I finally did blip - by Edwin Morgan ...

... and the following one, by Emily Dickinson, taken from the pictured 1997 selected poems - here it is:


Tell all the truth but tell it slant

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —

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Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

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