WEDDED.
A solemn thing it was, I said,
A woman white to be,
And wear, if God should count me fit,
Her hallowed mystery.
A timid thing to drop a life
Into the purple well,
Too plummetless that it come back
Eternity until.
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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems
Part Two: Love 56. A solemn thing it was, I said
