I have no life but this

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

II.


IHAVE no life but this,

      To lead it here;

Nor any death, but lest

Dispelled from there;


Nor tie to earths to come,

Nor action new,

Except through this extent,

The realm of you.

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