Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/Like mighty footlights burned the red

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Poems: Second Series (1891)
by Emily Dickinson
Like mighty footlights burned the red
4408597Poems: Second Series — Like mighty footlights burned the red1891Emily Dickinson

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LIKE mighty footlights burned the red
At bases of the trees, —
The far theatricals of day
Exhibiting to these.

'T was universe that did applaud
While, chiefest of the crowd,
Enabled by his royal dress,
Myself distinguished God.