Emily Dickinson

Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth

590 Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth — Widths out of the Sun — And look — and shudder, and block your breath — And deem to be alone In such a place, what horror, How Goblin it would be — And fly, as 'twere pursuing you? Then Loneliness — looks so — Did you ever look in a Cannon's face — Between whose Yellow eye — And yours — the Judgment intervened — The Question of "To die" — Extemporizing in your ear As cool as Satyr's Drums — If you remember, and were saved — It's liker so — it seems —