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Emily Dickinson

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Drab Habitation of Whom?
Tabernacle or Tomb—
Or Dome of Worm—
Or Porch of Gnome—
Or some Elf’s Catacomb?

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1864

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