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The Way Hope Builds His House

Emily Dickinson

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The way Hope builds his House
It is not with a sill-
Nor Rafter-has that Edifice
But only Pinnacle-

Abode in as supreme
This superficies
As if it were of Ledges smit
Or mortised with the Laws-

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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