Charity

"The Love a life can show Below,
Is but a filament, I know
Of that diviner thing....

'Tis this - invites - appalls - endows -
Flits - glimmers - proves - dissolves -
Returns - suggests - convicts - enchants -
Then - flings in paradise."


Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Franklin), 285


A fragment of a larger poem, but the beginning and end together say something to me quite directly that is lessened by including the carefully wrought fancies of the poem's middle.