Suspense

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

Elysium is as far as to

The very nearest room,

If in that room a friend await

Felicity or doom.


What fortitude the soul contains,

That it can so endure

The accent of a coming foot,

The opening of a door!

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