The Heart has many Doors --

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The Heart has many Doors -- by Emily Dickinson

 The Heart has many Doors --
I can but knock --
For any sweet "Come in"
Impelled to hark --
Not saddened by repulse,
Repast to me
That somewhere, there exists,
Supremacy --

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