Home ⇒ 📌Emily Dickinson ⇒ Too little way the House must lie
Too little way the House must lie
Too little way the House must lie
From every Human Heart
That holds in undisputed Lease
A white inhabitant
Too narrow is the Right between
Too imminent the chance
Each Consciousness must emigrate
And lose its neighbor once
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