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Emily Dickinson

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Remembrance has a Rear and Front—
’Tis something like a House—
It has a Garret also
For Refuse and the Mouse.

Besides the deepest Cellar
That ever Mason laid—
Look to it by its Fathoms
Ourselves be not pursued—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1871

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