Almost!

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

Within my reach!

I could have touched!

I might have chanced that way!

Soft sauntered through the village,

Sauntered as soft away!

So unsuspected violets

Within the fields lie low;

Too late for striving fingers

That passed, an hour ago.

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