Perhaps they do not go so far

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

Perhaps they do not go so far

As we who stay, suppose —

Perhaps come closer, for the lapse

Of their corporeal clothes —


It may be know so certainly

How short we have to fear

That comprehension antedates

And estimates us there —

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