Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/Like mighty footlights burned the red

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Poems: Second Series (1891)
by Emily Dickinson
Like mighty footlights burned the red
4408597Poems: Second Series — Like mighty footlights burned the red1891Emily Dickinson

XLI.

LIKE mighty footlights burned the red
At bases of the trees,—
The far theatricals of day
Exhibiting to these.

'T was universe that did applaud
While, chiefest of the crowd,
Enabled by his royal dress,
Myself distinguished God.