Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Rat

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
Storm
XXXVI

The Rat

The Rat

The rat is the concisest tenant.
He pays no rent, —
Repudiates the obligation,
On schemes intent.
Balking our wit
To sound or circumvent,
Hate cannot harm
A foe so reticent.
Neither decree
Prohibits him,
Lawful as
Equilibrium.
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