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ORIGINAL POEMS: Fascicle 6Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily DickinsonDickinsonThomas H. JohnsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1960The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Centenary EditionEmily DickinsonMartha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete HampsonBostonLittle, Brown, and Company1930DickinsonHelen VendlerCambridge, MassachusettsThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press2010
Poem 17 (J 80: 1830-1886)Our lives are Swiss—,—So still—, so Coolcool—,Till, some odd afternoon,The Alps neglect their Curtainscurtains,And we look farther on!.ItalyItalyItaly stands the other side!,While, like a guard between.,—The solumn Alps—,The SirensirenAlps,Forever intervene!