Reflections of a Man's Heart

Each Life Converges to some Centre -
Expressed - or still -
Exists in every Human Nature
A Goal -

Embodied scarcely to itself -it may be-
Too fair
For Credibility's presumption
To mar -

Adored with caution - as a Brittle Heaven
To reach
Were hopeless, as the Rainbow's Raiment
To Touch -

Yet persevered toward - sure - for the Distance -
How high -
Unto the Saint's slow diligence -
The Sky -

Ungained - it may be - by a Life's Low Venture -
But then -
Eternity enable the endeavoring
Again.

- Emily Dickinson, The Works of Love