Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

How firm Eternity must look

How firm Eternity must look
To crumbling men like me
The only Adamant Estate
In all Identity -

How mighty to the insecure
Thy Physiognomy
To whom not any Face cohere -
Unless concealed in thee
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