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| Alone and in a Circumstance
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| Written by: | Emily Dickinson (other works)
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| Poem #: | 1167
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| Language: | English
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| Type: | Poetry
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| Preceded by: | Of Paul and Silas it is said -1166-
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| Succeeded by: | As old as Woe -- -1168-
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Alone and in a Circumstance
Reluctant to be told
A spider on my reticence
Assiduously crawled
And so much more at Home than I
Immediately grew
I felt myself a visitor
And hurriedly withdrew
Revisiting my late abode
With articles of claim
I found it quietly assumed
As a Gymnasium
Where Tax asleep and Title off
The inmates of the Air
Perpetual presumption took
As each were special Heir --
If any strike me on the street
I can return the Blow --
If any take my property
According to the Law
The Statute is my Learned friend
But what redress can be
For an offense nor here nor there
So not in Equity --
That Larceny of time and mind
The marrow of the Day
By spider, or forbid it Lord
That I should specify.
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