Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

The inundation of the Spring

The inundation of the Spring
Enlarges every soul -
It sweeps the tenement away
But leaves the Water whole -

In which the soul at first estranged -
Seeks faintly for its shore
But acclimated - pines no more
For that Peninsula -
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