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So I pull my Stockings off

Emily Dickinson

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So I pull my Stockings off
Wading in the Water
For the Disobedience’ Sake
Boy that lived for “or’ter”

Went to Heaven perhaps at Death
And perhaps he didn’t
Moses wasn’t fairly used—
Ananias wasn’t—
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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1871
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