| I ’M wife; I ’ve finished that, | |
| That other state; | |
| I ’m Czar, I ’m woman now: | |
| It ’s safer so. | |
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| How odd the girl’s life looks | |
| Behind this soft eclipse! | |
| I think that earth seems so | |
| To those in heaven now. | |
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| This being comfort, then | |
| That other kind was pain; | |
| But why compare? | |
I ’m wife! stop there!
- Emily Dickinson (1830–86) |
