We never know we go, -- when we are going
Emily Dickinson · 1896
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From Poems by Emily Dickinson, published in 1896. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
We never know we go, -- when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.