Possession

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

DID the harebell loose her girdle

      To the lover bee,

Would the bee the harebell hallow

Much as formerly?


Did the paradise, persuaded,

Yield her moat of pearl,

Would the Eden be an Eden,

Or the earl an earl?

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