Perhaps They Do Not Go So Far

Emily Dickinson

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Perhaps they do not go so far
As we who stay, suppose—
Perhaps come closer, for the lapse
Of their corporeal clothes—

It may be know so certainly
How short we have to fear
That comprehension antedates
And estimates us there—

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