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POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
XXXV
THE rat is the concisest tenant.
He pays no rent, —
Repudiates the obligation,
On schemes intent.
He pays no rent, —
Repudiates the obligation,
On schemes intent.
Balking our wit
To sound or circumvent,
Hate cannot harm
A foe so reticent.
To sound or circumvent,
Hate cannot harm
A foe so reticent.
Neither decree
Prohibits him,
Lawful as
Equilibrium.
Prohibits him,
Lawful as
Equilibrium.
XXXVI
FREQUENTLY the woods are pink,
Frequently are brown;
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.
Frequently are brown;
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.
Oft a head is crested
I was wont to see,
And as oft a cranny
Where it used to be.
I was wont to see,
And as oft a cranny
Where it used to be.
And the earth, they tell me,
On its axis turned,—
Wonderful rotation
By but twelve performed!
On its axis turned,—
Wonderful rotation
By but twelve performed!
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