Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

I Saw No Way—the Heavens Were Stitched -

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I saw no Way—The Heavens were stitched—
I felt the Columns close—
The Earth reversed her Hemispheres—
I touched the Universe—

And back it slid—and I alone—
A Speck upon a Ball—
Went out upon Circumference—
Beyond the Dip of Bell—
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