Dr Iain McGilchrist | Daily Poetry Readings #359: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers & Tell All the Truth by Emily Dickinson @DrIainMcGilchrist | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
Part 359 of a daily series of readings of his favourite poetry by Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary. Today's poems are Safe in their Alabaster Chambers and Tell All the Truth by Emily Dickinson.

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~ Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson ~

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -
Untouched by Morning -
and untouched by noon -
Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection,
Rafter of Satin and Roof of Stone -

Grand go the Years,
In the Crescent above them -
Worlds scoop their Arcs -
and Firmaments - row -
Diadems - drop -
And Doges surrender -
Soundless as Dots,
On a Disk of Snow.

~ Tell All the Truth 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 —