The Mind
We see comparatively.
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
We see comparatively.
The thing so towering high
We could not grasp its segment
Unaided yesterday.
This morning's finer verdict
Makes scarcely worth the toil—
A furrow our Cordillera,
Our Apennines a knoll.
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