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Painting, Poetry

“Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant”

October 5, 2012 Larkrise

Lightning, Canoe Lake — Lightning, Canoe Lake. Tom Thompson. 1915.

Emily Dickinson

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—

Success in Circuit lies

Too bright for our Infirm Delight

The Truth’s superb surprise.

As Lightining to the Children eased

With explanations kind

The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind—

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