POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
Italy stands the other side,
While, like a guard between,
The solemn Alps,
The siren Alps,
Forever intervene!
While, like a guard between,
The solemn Alps,
The siren Alps,
Forever intervene!
CXXIV
REMEMBRANCE has a rear and front,—
'T is something like a house;
It has a garret also
For refuse and the mouse,
'T is something like a house;
It has a garret also
For refuse and the mouse,
Besides, the deepest cellar
That ever mason hewed;
Look to it, by its fathoms
Ourselves be not pursued.
That ever mason hewed;
Look to it, by its fathoms
Ourselves be not pursued.
CXXV
TO hang our head ostensibly,
And subsequent to find
That such was not the posture
Of our immortal mind,
And subsequent to find
That such was not the posture
Of our immortal mind,
Affords the sly presumption
That, in so dense a fuzz,
You, too, take cobweb attitudes
Upon a plane of gauze!
That, in so dense a fuzz,
You, too, take cobweb attitudes
Upon a plane of gauze!
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