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One Crown That No One Seeks

Emily Dickinson

1735

One crown that no one seeks
And yet the highest head
Its isolation coveted
Its stigma deified

While Pontius Pilate lives
In whatsoever hell
That coronation pierces him
He recollects it well.

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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