Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - (236)

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -

I keep it, staying at Home -

With a Bobolink for a Chorister -

And an Orchard, for a Dome -

Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice -

I, just wear my Wings -

And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church,

Our little Sexton - sings.

God preaches, a noted Clergyman -

And the sermon is never long,

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last -

I’m going, all along.

Copyright Credit: Emily Dickinson, "Some keep the Sabbath going to church" from (02138: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, )

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by R. W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)