On my volcano grows the grass

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

A meditative spot,

An area for a bird to choose

Would be the general thought.


How red the fire reeks below,

How insecure the sod—

Did I disclose, would populate

With awe my solitude.

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