Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GOAL, by EMILY DICKINSON



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First Line: Each life converges to some centre / expressed or still
Last Line: Again.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 680;poem: 724


Each life converges to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal,
Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare.
Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,
To reach
Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment
To touch,
Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance;
How high
Unto the saints' slow diligence
The sky!
Ungained, it may be, by a life's low venture,
But then,
Eternity enables the endeavoring
Again.




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