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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Three: Love

IV

ELYSIUM is as far as to

The very nearest room,

If in that room a friend await

Felicity or doom.

What fortitude the soul contains,

That it can so endure

The accent of a coming foot,

The opening of a door!