Like Men and Women shadows walk

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

Upon the hills today,

With here and there a mighty bow,

Or trailing courtesy

To Neighbors, doubtless, of their own;

Not quickened to perceive

Minuter landscape, as Ourselves

And Boroughs where we live.

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