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The Way I Read A Letter's This:

    By Emily Elizabeth Dickinson



    The way I read a letter's this:
    'T is first I lock the door,
    And push it with my fingers next,
    For transport it be sure.

    And then I go the furthest off
    To counteract a knock;
    Then draw my little letter forth
    And softly pick its lock.

    Then, glancing narrow at the wall,
    And narrow at the floor,
    For firm conviction of a mouse
    Not exorcised before,

    Peruse how infinite I am
    To -- no one that you know!
    And sigh for lack of heaven, -- but not
    The heaven the creeds bestow.



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