Poem A Day

Which is best? Heaven --

by Emily Dickinson

Which is best? Heaven --

Or only Heaven to come

With that old Codicil of Doubt?

I cannot help esteem

The "Bird within the Hand"

Superior to the one

The "Bush" may yield me

Or may not

Too late to choose again.

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Poem A Day

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