Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| WHAT mystery pervades a well! | |
| The water lives so far, | |
| Like neighbor from another world | |
| Residing in a jar. | |
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| The grass does not appear afraid; | 5 |
| I often wonder he | |
| Can stand so close and look so bold | |
| At what is dread to me. | |
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| Related somehow they may be,— | |
| The sedge stands next the sea, | 10 |
| Where he is floorless, yet of fear | |
| No evidence gives he. | |
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| But nature is a stranger yet; | |
| The ones that cite her most | |
| Have never passed her haunted house, | 15 |
| Nor simplified her ghost. | |
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| To pity those that know her not | |
| Is helped by the regret | |
| That those who know her, know her less | |
| The nearer her they get. | 20 |
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