God is not so wary as we, else he would give us no friends, lest we forget him! The Charms of the Heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the Heaven in the hand, occasionally.
Source:Letter to Samuel Bowles (late August 1858?); in The Letters of Emily Dickinson (ed. Belknap Press, 1958), Volume II, Letter 193, Page 338
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