His mind, of man a secret makes

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

I meet him with a start,

He carries a circumference

In which I have no part,

Or even if I deem I do—

He otherwise may know.

Impregnable to inquest,

However neighborly.

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