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She envisions heaven as a small
town in 3:74 Almost contented

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to be among such unique society.

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Yet in one of her
most famous poems

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about wanting to witness
the light when she might

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see the King at death's point.

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After giving everything
in her life away with

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friends gathered in
tears or after tears.

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In poem 465 such
vision is denied for I

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heard a fly buzz when I died.

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The stillness in the room was
like the stillness of the air

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between the heaves of storm.

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The eyes around
had wrung them dry

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and breaths were gathering
firm for that last onset.

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When the King be
witnessed in the room.

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I willed my keepsake.

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Signed away what portion
of me be assignable.

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And then it was,
there interposed a fly

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with blue uncertain stumbling
buzz between the light and me.

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And then the windows failed.

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And then I could
not see, to see.

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One could say she
is a woman of faith,

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for it is faith not vision
that she is allowed of grace.

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Yet she often doubts
too and she did not

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consider herself a Christian
because she had not

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been carried away, though
she has been so by love.

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So for God she must
conform herself.

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She must be like that
fine service put away

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in its cupboard, or
as she says in 7:51,

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so I the un divine abode
of his elect content

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conform my soul, as 'twere a
church, unto her sacrament.

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