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The rat is the concisest tenant.

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

The rat is the concisest tenant.
He pays no rent, —
Repudiates the obligation,
On schemes intent.

Balking our wit
To sound or circumvent,
Hate cannot harm
A foe so reticent.

Neither decree
Prohibits him,
Lawful as
Equilibrium.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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