... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.
A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods
Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me-- / The simple News that Nature told-- / With tender majesty.