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 —