Nature and God -- I neither knew

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Nature and God -- I neither knew by Emily Dickinson

 Nature and God -- I neither knew
Yet Both so well knew me
They startled, like Executors
Of My identity.

Yet Neither told -- that I could learn --
My Secret as secure
As Herschel's private interest
Or Mercury's affair --

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