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Famous Poems by
Famous Poets :
Part Three: Love, XXIV
>> Emily Dickinson <<
THE WAY I read a letter’s this: ’T is first I lock the door, And push it with my fingers next, For transport it be sure.
And then I go the furthest off To counteract a knock; Then draw my little letter forth And softly pick its lock.
Then, glancing narrow at the wall, And narrow at the floor, For firm conviction of a mouse Not exorcised before,
Peruse how infinite I am To—no one that you know! And sigh for lack of heaven,—but not The heaven the creeds bestow.
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