One need not be a chamber to be haunted

Emily Dickinson

1830 to 1886

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The stones achase,
Than an interior confronting
In lonesome place.
One need not be a house;
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
Assassin, hid in our apartment,
Material place.
He bolts the door,
Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost,
More near.
Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
That whiter host.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
The brain has corridors surpassing
The prudent carries a revolver,
Be horror's least.
Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
Should startle most;
O'erlooking a superior spectre