21 gen 1863 anni - "Some - Work for Immortality - "
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Some - Work for immortality -
The Chiefer part for Time -
He - Compensates - immediately -
The former - Checks - on Fame -
Slow Gold - but Everlasting -
The Bullion of Today -
Contrasted with the Currency
Of Immortality -
A Beggar - Here and There -
Is gifted to discern
Beyond the Broker's insight -
One's - Money - One's - the Mine -
This poem explores one of Dickinson's central themes involving work and industry: the relationship between earthly labor, wealth, and the divine. In this poem there is a particular contrast between the immediate and the immortal, between money and that which is "Beyond the Broker's insight."
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