Emily Dickinson's plate at Dinner Party

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A solemn thing -- it was -- I said --
A woman -- white -- to be --
And wear -- if God should count me fit --
Her blameless mystery --And then -- the size of this "small" life --
The Sages -- call it small -- Swelled -- like Horizons -- in
my vest --And I sneered --- softly -- "small!"