Which is best? Heaven --
Which is best? Heaven -- Or only Heaven to come With that old Codicil of Doubt? I cannot help esteem
The "Bird within the Hand" Superior to the one The "Bush" may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again.
Emily Dickinson
Which is best? Heaven -- Or only Heaven to come With that old Codicil of Doubt? I cannot help esteem
The "Bird within the Hand" Superior to the one The "Bush" may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again.
What would you rather have—heaven right now, or a heaven that only comes later, with a nagging little clause of doubt attached? Emily Dickinson’s speaker doesn’t pretend to be noble about it.
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