His little Hearse like Figure by Emily Dickinson

"Гилберту, чтобы отнёс своей наставнице."

Его останков лёгкость
сама себе помин
в огласку для сирени
тщеты обманной с ним
занятий, поучений,
всех правильных вещей,
в честь Гибели священной
Весны и Праздных Дней...

"Всем лжецам воздастся."
Джонатан Эдвардс.
"И да приидет жаждущий."
Иисус.


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(Эмили - 6-летнему племяннику Гилберту, посылая
с запиской невесомое тельце уснувшего шмеля,
для передачи оного им своей "учительнице"(наставнице),
это, скорее всего, его матери Сьюзан, невестке Эмили и
по совместительству её возлюбленной.
Приведённые цитаты стоят ниже стиха, в той же записке.)

[David Preest:
Emily sent this poem to her six year old nephew, Gilbert, accompanied
by a dead bee and introduced with the instruction ‘For Gilbert to carry
to his Teacher.’ After the poem the letter ends with the lines:
“All Liars shall have their part” –
Jonathan Edwards
“And let him that is athirst come” –
Jesus.
The title of the poem is ‘The Bumble Bee’s Religion’ (made the first
line of the poem by Franklin), and Emily in this poem is attacking that
religion of busy-ness and hard work. The dead bee, whose only Dirge was
its buzzing when alive, shows the Lilac, which seduced him into working,
how vain is the ethic of hard work and moral behaviour seeing that it
only leads to death, and when compared with the ‘perdition’ or sin of
idly enjoying the spring – a sin which has something divine about it.
As a note to the teacher, the poem is presumably a plea to her not to
work Gilbert too hard, as people who tell the lie that hard work is
necessary shall have the reward promised them by Jonathan Edwards
(and Revelation 21:8). The key thing, as Jesus said, is to be ‘athirst’
for the divine revelation of the spring. In an earlier letter (L542)
of 1878 Emily had instructed Mrs Holland to give her love to Dr. Holland
‘and tell him the “Bee” is a reckless Guide. Dear Mr Bowles found out
too late, that Vitality costs itself.’ She also quotes from
Revelation 21:8 in poem 1598.]

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His little Hearse like Figure by Emily Dickinson

His little Hearse like Figure 
Unto itself a Dirge            
To a delusive Lilac            
The vanity divulge            
Of Industry and Morals         
And every righteous thing      
For the divine Perdition      
Of Idleness and Spring --      

“All Liars shall have their part” –
Jonathan Edwards
“And let him that is athirst come” –
Jesus.