Belshazzar had a letter, --
He never had but one;
Belshazzar's correspondent
Concluded and begun
In that immortal copy
The conscience of us all
Can read without its glasses
On revelation's wall.
"Belshazzar Had A Letter,"
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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