A Counterfeit—a Plated Person—

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

A Counterfeit — a Plated Person —

I would not be —

Whatever strata of Iniquity

My Nature underlie —

Truth is good Health — and Safety, and the Sky.

How meagre, what an Exile — is a Lie,

And Vocal — when we die —

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