Deed

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

ADEED knocks first at thought,

      And then it knocks at will.

That is the manufacturing spot,

And will at home and well.


It then goes out an act,

Or is entombed so still

That only to the ear of God

Its doom is audible.

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