The inundation of the Spring

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

Submerges every soul,

It sweeps the tenement away

But leaves the water whole.

In which the Soul, at first alarmed,

Seeks furtive for its shore,

But acclimated, gropes no more

For that Peninsular.

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