Poems — First Series by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis Todd

This Is My Letter to the World

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!

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