Epitaph

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

STEP lightly on this narrow spot!

      The broadest land that grows

Is not so ample as the breast

These emerald seams enclose.


Step lofty; for this name is told

As far as cannon dwell,

Or flag subsist, or fame export

Her deathless syllable.

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