Time & Brevity
Our lives are Swiss, --
Time & Brevity
Our lives are Swiss, --
So still, so cool,
Till, some odd afternoon,
The Alps neglect their curtains,
And we look farther on.
Italy stands the other side,
While, like a guard between,
The solemn Alps,
The siren Alps,
Forever intervene!
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Our lives are Swiss, --.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/320/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “Our lives are Swiss, --.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/320/.
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