I live with Him -- I see His face

Read 'I live with Him -- I see His face' by 'Emily Dickinson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

I live with Him -- I see His face by Emily Dickinson

 I live with Him -- I see His face --
I go no more away
For Visitor -- or Sundown --
Death's single privacy

The Only One -- forestalling Mine --
And that -- by Right that He
Presents a Claim invisible --
No wedlock -- granted Me --

I live with Him -- I hear His Voice --
I stand alive -- Today --
To witness to the Certainty
Of Immortality --

Taught Me -- by Time -- the lower Way --
Conviction -- Every day --
That Life like This -- is stopless --
Be Judgment -- what it may --

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