His Cheek is his Biographer by Emily Dickinson

                Вору

Его щека запишет всё.
Коль может c краской жить,
паденья стыд - позором жжёт,
стих - набело грешит!..


 
         
(Эмили - племяннику Неду, 1879г.)
[David Preest:
This poem was written on a single sheet of paper and
signed ‘Thief.’ Thomas Johnson thinks that the poem
may have been sent to Ned, with the signature showing
that the poem is teasing him for stealing something.
Emily says that his ‘Cheek’ gives him away. As long as
it blushes red, she knows that his feelings of shame
put him in ‘Perdition,’ but that once his cheek
returns to normal, he is sinning ‘in peace.’]

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His Cheek is his Biographer -- by Emily Dickinson

                Thief

His Cheek is his Biographer --          
As long as he can blush               
Perdition is Opprobrium --               
Past that, he sins in peace --