Poems (Dickinson)/Prelude

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For other versions of this work, see This is my letter to the World.
Poems (1890)
by Emily Dickinson
Prelude
184222Poems — Prelude1890Emily Dickinson

THIS is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,—
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!