This is my letter to the world
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
first published 1890

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This is my letter to the world,
   That never wrote to me,—
The simple news that Nature told,
   With tender majesty.

Her message is committed
   To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
   Judge tenderly of me!