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The Shelter.

    By Emily Elizabeth Dickinson



    The body grows outside, --
    The more convenient way, --
    That if the spirit like to hide,
    Its temple stands alway

    Ajar, secure, inviting;
    It never did betray
    The soul that asked its shelter
    In timid honesty.


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