“I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur — and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves — Would this do just as well?”
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- Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
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Context
Letter to T. W. Higginson (July 1862); Letters (1958) p. 411, no. 268
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