I heard Emily Dickinson quoted last night in a homily for the first Mass of Easter. The bishop who was officiating revealed that he had been an English major in college. I must confess my ears perked up since I, too, am part of that society of English majors that Garrison Keillor often speaks of on A Prairie Home Companion. Of course, Emily Dickinson makes my ears perk up as well. Here is the poem:
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant (# 1129)
By Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant --
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind --
May we continue along those slopes of truth and may our eyes ever adjust to that light revealed.
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