Which Is Best? Heaven-

Emily Dickinson

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Which is best? Heaven—
Or only Heaven to come
With that old Codicil of Doubt?
I cannot help esteem

The “Bird within the Hand”
Superior to the one
The “Bush” may yield me
Or may not
Too late to choose again.

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