Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/Possession

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4405131Poems: Second Series — Possession1891Emily Dickinson

IX.

POSSESSION.


DID the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?

Did the paradise, persuaded,
Yield her moat of pearl,
Would the Eden be an Eden,
Or the earl an earl?