Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
Correspondence with Susan Dickinson


H 223a
[The] A Diamond on
[A]
the Hand
To Custom Common
grown
Subsides from its'
significance
The Gem were
best unknown '
Within a Seller's
Shrine
How many sight
and sigh
And cannot, but
for
are mad with fear
H 223b

That any other buy.
Lest some one else
should
Lest Richer People
buy -
 

H 223


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