The Pile of Years is not so high

by Emily Dickinson


Original Language English

The Pile of Years is not so high
As when you came before
But it is rising every Day
From recollection's Floor
And while by standing on my Heart
I still can reach the top
Efface the mountain with your face
And catch me ere I drop

-- from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson

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