Spurn the temerity by Emily Dickinson

Брось поспешание,- 
Креста искание,-
петь Гефсимании,
знай мы Тебя...




[David Preest:
This poem was a whole letter sent to Helen Hunt Jackson.
In The Letters of Emily Dickinson it is dated to ‘about
mid-April 1879’ and the editors suggest that it may have
been a reminder to Mrs Jackson about Easter time that Emily
had not recently heard from her. So Emily may be saying
in effect, ‘You can spurn my rash temerity in writing to
you in the Calvary of your absence, but all I can say is
that Gethsemane itself would be gay, if I had only had a
letter from you.’ That Mrs Jackson had become a dear friend
to Emily can be seen from Emily’s saying in a letter of
November 1878 to Thomas Higginson that ‘I had a sweet
Forenoon with Mrs Jackson recently, who brought her Husband
to me for the first time (L574).’
Mrs Jackson later sent poem 1432 to Higginson, adding
at the bottom ‘wonderful twelve words!’]

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Spurn the temerity -- by Emily Dickinson

Spurn the temerity --    
Rashness of Calvary --   
Gay were Gethsemane      
Knew we of Thee --