Poems (Dickinson)/Astra Castra

by Emily Dickinson

For other versions of this work, see Departed—to the Judgment—.

III.

ASTRA CASTRA

Departed to the judgment,
A mighty afternoon;
Great clouds like ushers leaning,
Creation looking on.

The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The bodiless begun;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.