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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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Alone and in a Circumstance
Reluctant to be told
A spider on my reticence
Assiduously crawled

And so much more at Home than I
Immediately grew
I felt myself a visitor
And hurriedly withdrew

Revisiting my late abode
With articles of claim
I found it quietly assumed
As a Gymnasium
Where Tax asleep and Title off
The inmates of the Air
Perpetual presumption took
As each were special Heirβ€”
If any strike me on the street
I can return the Blowβ€”

If any take my property
According to the Law
The Statute is my Learned friend
But what redress can be
For an offense nor here nor there
So not in Equityβ€”
That Larceny of time and mind
The marrow of the Day
By spider, or forbid it Lord
That I should specify.
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