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from Thomas H. Johnson's The Poems of Emily Dickinson

657

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

Of Chambers as the Cedars -
Impregnable of Eye -
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky -

Of Visiters - the fairest -
For Occupation - This -
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise -

   8. Gambrels] Gables -


 		from R. W. Franklin's The Poems of Emily Dickinson

466

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

Of Chambers as the Cedars -
Impregnable of eye -
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky -

Of Visitors - the fairest -
For Occupation - This -
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise -

8 Gambrels] Gables -

Division     7 everlasting |     11 my |
Ellen Hart's transcription

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

Of Chambers as the Cedars -
Impregnable of Eye -
And for an Everlasting
Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky -

Of Visiters - the fairest -
For Occupation - This -
The spreading wide my
narrow Hands
To gather Paradise -

     x     Gables -

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