Like Men and Women Shadows walk
Upon the Hills Today –
With here and there a mighty Bow
Or trailing Courtesy
To Neighbors doubtless of their own
Not quickened to perceive
Minuter landscape as Ourselves
And Boroughs where we live –
Source:Poem no. 1105: Like Men and Women Shadows walk; in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ed. Little, Brown & Co., 1960), Page 499
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