Кому весь свет как дом родной
сияют, не прося,
Приветы рая мне в ладонь
от тех, земля чья вся,
Их пёстрый путь к самим себе
наградой честной тих,
"Стучащему да отворят" -
вот богословье их.
[David Preest:
In October 1882 Sue was about to go to
a niece’s wedding in Michigan. This poem
was written on the verso of a sheet of
paper containing a draft of a note sent to Sue
just before she went. And as Sue had always
been keen to get out of Amherst and go
on her travels, it looks as though she is
one of these ‘Cosmopolites’ who, without
asking if it is all right, turn up on doorsteps
‘in every land’ and expect royal treatment
from whatever their hostess has on hand.
They enjoy being on the move for its own
sake, and believe that any door they knock
on will be opened for them. (Matthew7:7)
Emily herself was the opposite of a Cosmopolite,
and would have agreed with a fellow New Englander,
Abigail Adams, who after a few rough voyages
across the Atlantic supporting her husband John
on his diplomatic missions, recorded in her
diary that she would be quite content to learn
what more there was to know of the world from
the pages of books.]
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Cosmopolites without a plea by Emily Dickinson
Cosmopolites without a plea
Alight in every Land
The compliments of Paradise
From those within my Hand
Their dappled Journey to themselves
A compensation fair
Knock and it shall be opened
Is their Theology