No romance sold unto

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

Could so enthrall a man

As the perusal of

His individual one.

'Tis fiction's, to dilute

To plausibility

Our novel, when 'tis small enough

To credit,—'tis n't true!

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