The things we thought that we should do

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

The things we thought that we should do

We other things have done

But those peculiar industries

Have never been begun —


The Lands we thought that we should seek

When large enough to run

By Speculation ceded

To Speculation's Son —


The Heaven, in which we hoped to pause

When Discipline was done

Untenable to Logic

But possibly the one —

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