The Mind
One and One are One,
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
One and One are One,
Two be finished using,
Well enough for schools
But for inner choosing,
Life—just, or Death—
Or the Everlasting.
Two would be too vast,
For the Soul's comprising.
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Dickinson, Emily. “One and One are One.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/559/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “One and One are One.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/559/.
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