Emily Dickinson (10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)

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Size circumscribes—it has no room
For petty furniture—
The Giant tolerates no Gnat
For Ease of Gianture—

Repudiates it, all the more—
Because intrinsic size
Ignores the possibility
Of Calumnies—or Flies.