The World is not Conclusion

This World is not Conclusion by Emily Dickinson

This world is not Conclusion.

A Species stands beyond - 

Invisible, as Music - 

But positive, as Sound - 

It beckons, and it baffles - 

Philosophy - don't know - 

And through a Riddle, at the last -

Sagacity, must go - 

to guess it, puzzles scholars -

To gain it, Men have borne

contempt of generations

And Crucifixion, shown -

faith slips - and laughs, and rallies - 

blushes, if any see-

plucks at a twig of evidence -

And asks a Vane, the way -

Much gesture, from the Pulpit -

strong Hallelujahs roll-

Narcotics cannot still the Tooth

That nibbles at the soul.