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WHAT soft, cherubic creatures
These gentlewomen are!
One would as soon assault a plush
Or violate a star.

Such dimity convictions,
A horror so refined
Of freckled human nature,
Of Deity ashamed,—

It’s such a common glory,
A fisherman’s degree!
Redemption, brittle lady,
Be so, ashamed of thee.

Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems, Part One: Life, CXXX, 1924 (poem is about hypocrisy)

Posted on March 16, 2012 via Miss Folly with 40 notes
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Notes of an Ignorant farmer

WHAT soft, cherubic creatures These gentlewomen are! One would as soon assault a plush Or violate a star. Such dimity convictions, A horror so refined Of freckled human nature, Of Deity ashamed,— It’s such a common glory, A fisherman’s degree! Redemption, brittle lady, Be so, ashamed of thee.