No Ordinance be seen
So gradual the Grace
A pensive Custom it becomes
Enlarging Loneliness.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!
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Has it feathers like a Bird?
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I would not stop for night, or storm --
Or frost, or death, or anyone --
My business were so dear!
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Nor had I time to Love --
But since
Some Industry must be --
The little Toil of Love --
I thought
Be large enough for Me --
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Could live -- did live --
Could die -- did die --
Could smile upon the whole
Through faith in one he met not,
To introduce his soul.
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The tidy Breezes, with their Brooms --
Sweep vale -- and hill -- and tree!
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