Poem A Day

Did life's penurious length

by Emily Dickinson

Did life's penurious length

Italicize its sweetness,

The men that daily live

Would stand so deep in joy

That it would clog the cogs

Of that revolving reason

Whose esoteric belt

Protects our sanity.

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