“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”
“Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —
I keep it, staying at Home—
With a Bobolink for a Chorister —
And an Orchard, for a Dome”
324: Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
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“How mighty are the Sabbaths,
How mighty and how deep,
That the high courts of heaven
To everlasting keep.”
O quanta qualia<br/>sunt illa sabbata,<br/>quae semper celebrat<br/>superna curia.
O quanta qualia
sunt illa sabbata,
quae semper celebrat
superna curia.
"Sabbato ad Vesperas", line 1; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1933) p. 163
“Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)