The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866–1943)

The Soul's superior instantsOccur to Her alone,When friend and earth's occasionHave infinite withdrawn.

Or she, Herself, ascendedTo too remote a height,For lower recognitionThan Her Omnipotent.

This mortal abolitionIs seldom, but as fairAs Apparition—subjectTo autocratic air.

Eternity's disclosureTo favorites, a few,Of the Colossal substanceOf immortality.

Of the Colossal substanceOf immortality.