Nature and God — I neither knew
by Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) English
Nature and God — I neither knew
Yet Both so well knew me
They startled, like Executors
Of My identity.
Yet Neither told — that I could learn —
My Secret as secure
As Herschel's private interest
Or Mercury's affair —
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