
A Quiet Passion
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You have now come
to the end of your second semester.
Some of you will remain here
to complete your education.
Some of you will go out into the world.
And, as is my custom,
I put to you a question
of the utmost importance,
which concerns your spiritual wellbeing.
Do you wish to come to God
and be saved?
Those of you who wish to be Christian
and saved will move to my right.
To those of you who remain
and hope to be saved...
you will move to my left.
Have you said your prayers?
Yes.
Though it can't make much
difference to the Creator.
Do I understand you correctly?
Do you believe that your Creator is
indifferent to your sins?
That, in His mercy,
He sees you slumber?
No, you misunderstand me.
I've not got so far.
I am not even awakened yet.
And how should I repent?
I am somewhat troubled, to be sure,
but my feelings are all indefinite.
The question is not
how far you have advanced,
but how far you ought to have advanced.
Not how you feel,
but how you ought to feel.
I don't feel anything.
I have no sense of my sins.
And how can I?
I wish I could feel as others do,
but it is not possible.
and under condemnation,
and liable every moment to drop
into a burning hopeless eternity,
yet cannot feel, cannot be alarmed,
cannot "flee from the wrath to come".
And the true question is...
Are you in the Ark of Safety?
I fear I am not.
You are alone in your rebellion,
Miss Dickinson.
I fear that you are a no-hoper.
Yes, Miss Lyon.
For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.
Father. Austin. Vinnie!
My happiness would be complete,
if only Mother were with you.
too fatiguing for her.
We have come to take you home, Emily.
- We were concerned by your last letter.
Yes. What is it that
you are suffering from?
- An acute case of evangelism.
- Am I really to go home?
- Yes.
We will go to Amherst, via Boston,
and stay for a short while
with Aunt Elizabeth.
I fear you don't approve, Father?
I do not like to see a woman
upon the stage.
But she has a gift.
A gift is no excuse for a female
to exhibit herself in that way.
And what would you have her do?
Perform an act of congress aloud?
That would depend
upon what key it was in.
Well, the rest of her programme
is in respectable German.
And the Germans
are wonderful in music.
That's true.
English, thank heaven,
is not a language that can be sung.
But, Aunt Elizabeth,
you love your hymn tunes.
Hymns are different. They have
absolutely nothing to do with music.
Ah, the devil in music.
Don't be trite, Emily.
Oh, life!
Oh, home!
How wonderful you are!
Emily.
Why are you up so late?
- May I speak with you, Father?
- Of course.
As you may know, I like to write.
Letters, mostly... but sometimes poetry.
Yes.
May I have your permission to write
during the night, for quiet's sake?
I shall not disrupt
the rest of the household, I promise.
Yes, you may.
It was very considerate of you to ask.
It is your house, Father.
But it is our home, Emily.
I... I have one more favour
to ask of you, Father.
What is it?
You are, I believe, on cordial terms
with Dr Holland,
the editor of the Springfield Republican.
And the Springfield Republican
publishes poetry.
I'll write to him.
And if he agrees,
you may send him some of your work.
"Dear Miss Dickinson,
"I have decided to publish
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