Further Poems of Emily Dickinson/God is a distant, stately Lover,

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God is a distant, stately Lover,
Woos, so He tells us, by His Son.
Surely a vicarious courtship!
Miles' and Priscilla's such a one.
But lest the soul, like fair Priscilla,
Choose the envoy and spurn the Groom,
Vouches, with hyperbolic archness,
Miles and John Alden
Are synonym.[1]

  1. ↑ First four lines only before published in a paper by her niece.
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