Poem

How the Waters closed above Him

Emily Dickinson
923 How the Waters closed above Him We shall never know— How He stretched His Anguish to us That—is covered too— Spreads the Pond Her Base of Lilies Bold above the Boy Whose unclaimed Hat and Jacket Sum the History—

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