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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Five: The Single Hound XXVI |
| THE PROPS assist the house | |
| Until the house is built, | |
| And then the props withdraw— | |
| And adequate, erect, | |
| The house supports itself; | 5 |
| Ceasing to recollect | |
| The auger and the carpenter. | |
| Just such a retrospect | |
| Hath the perfected life, | |
| A past of plank and nail, | 10 |
| And slowness,—then the scaffolds drop— | |
| Affirming it a soul. |
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