The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
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Myself was formed - a Carpenter -An unpretending time My Plane, and I, together wrought Before a Builder came - To measure our attainments -Had we the Art of Boards Sufficiently developed - He'd hire us At Halves - My Tools took Human - Faces - The Bench, where we had toiled -Against the Man, persuaded - We - Temples build - I said -