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Knock with tremor --

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Knock with tremor -- by Emily Dickinson

 Knock with tremor --
These are Caesars --
Should they be at Home
Flee as if you trod unthinking
On the Foot of Doom --

These receded to accostal
Centuries ago --
Should they rend you with "How are you"
What have you to show?

Form: Free verse

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