Fascicle 16: Dickinson's variants and published versions
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ORIGINAL POEMSEmily DickinsonPoems, Third SeriesEmily DickinsonMabel Loomis ToddBostonLittle, Brown and Company1896Hathi Trust Digital LibraryThe Poems of Emily Dickinson: Centenary EditionEmily DickinsonMartha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete HampsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1930Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's PoemsEmily DickinsonThomas H. JohnsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1961
Poem 3 (J 279: 1861/1896)Tie the Stringsstrings to my Lifelife, Mymy Lord,Then, I am ready to go!Just a look at the Horseshorses—Rapid! That will do!Put me in on the tightest highest—firmest side—,So I shall never fall—;For we must ride to the Judgment—,And it's partly, down Hill—many a mile—the Hillspartly down hill.But never I mind the steepest—Bridgesbridges,And never I mind the Seasea—;Held fast in EverlastingeverlastingRacerace—By my own Choicechoice, and Theethee—.Good byeGood-byGoodbye to the Lifelife I used to live—,And the Worldworld I used to know—;And kiss the Hillshills, for me, just once—;Here's a keepsake for Then—Now I am ready to go!