The grave my little cottage is

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

      Where, keeping house for thee,

I make my parlor orderly,

      And lay the marble tea,


For two divided, briefly,

      A cycle, it may be,

Till everlasting life unite

      In strong society.

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