Safe in their Alabaster Chambers --

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Written by:

Emily Dickinson (other works)

Poem #:

216

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Language:

English

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Poetry

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Preceded by:

What is -- "Paradise" -- -215-

Succeeded by:

Savior! I've no one else to tell -- -217-

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Safe in their Alabaster Chambers --
Untouched my Morning
And untouched by Noon --
Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection --
Rafter of satin,
And Roof of stone.

Light laughs the breeze
In her Castle above them --
Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear,
Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence --
Ah, what sagacity perished here!