The White Heat. By Emily Dickinson

    Dare you see a soul at the white heat?    Then crouch within the door.    Red is the fire’s common tint;    But when the vivid ore     Has sated flame’s conditions,    Its quivering substance plays    Without a color but the light    Of unanointed blaze.     Least village boasts its blacksmith,    Whose anvil’s even din    Stands symbol for the finer forge    That soundless tugs within,     Refining these impatient…