Just so Jesus raps by Emily Dickinson

Таков... Его... удар...
Иисусу - не устать
последним - бить кольцом дверным
и первым - бить в набат.
На пальцах ног святых привстав,
мог душу милой бы узнать...
Уходит коль,
озябнув иль устав,-
за этот миг исполнюсь чувств,-
дотоле терпелива, на ступеньках -
душа! подле тебя - стучусь.



(Эмили - к Сью.)
[David Preest:
Emily sent a copy of this poem to Sue, and it is
probably meant to remind Sue of Emily’s unwearying
devotion to her. Jesus raps on the doors of our
hearts in just the same persistent way that Emily
raps on the door of Sue’s heart. Indeed so devoted
is Emily to Sue that she is willing to wait ‘patient
upon the steps’ until Jesus has finished, before she
begins her own low knocking on the door of her
heart’s desire.
Judith Farr thinks that Emily may have based her poem
on William Holman Hunt’s painting of 1853-6 called
The Light of the World, in which Jesus in a white robe
(see poem 248, lines 9-10) is shown knocking at a door.
The painting was exhibited in New York in 1857,
and Emily may have seen a reproduction of it.
The dashes in the first line perhaps represent rapping.]

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Just so -- Jesus -- raps by Emily Dickinson

Just so -- Jesus -- raps --               
He -- doesn't weary --               
Last -- at the Knocker --               
And first -- at the Bell.               
Then -- on divinest tiptoe -- standing --   
Might He but spy the lady's soul --         
When He -- retires --               
Chilled -- or weary --               
It will be ample time for -- me --          
Patient -- upon the steps -- until then --   
Heart! I am knocking -- low at thee.