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American Romanticism

A Tooth upon Our Peace

by Emily Dickinson · 1830–1886

8 linesUnited StatesSource: PoetryDB
short lyricamerican romanticism

A Tooth upon Our Peace

The Peace cannot deface --

Then Wherefore be the Tooth?

To vitalize the Grace --


The Heaven hath a Hell --

Itself to signalize --

And every sign before the Place

Is Gilt with Sacrifice --