Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy

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

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,

And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men —

Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily

When at my very Door are those possessing more,

In abject poverty —

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