The Book of Martyrs
The Book of Martyrs by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that invites the reader to open a book of brave lives and draw strength from them. Each stanza turns on a quiet exchange: others strove so that we may grow stouter, and endured so that we may fear less. The second stanza lifts toward faith burning above the fagot, hymns no river could drown, and forgotten names rising into renown.
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