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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 44. Step lightly on this narrow spot!

EPITAPH.


Step lightly on this narrow spot!

The broadest land that grows

Is not so ample as the breast

These emerald seams enclose.


Step lofty; for this name is told

As far as cannon dwell,

Or flag subsist, or fame export

Her deathless syllable.

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