Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RAT, by EMILY DICKINSON


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First Line: The rat is the concisest tenant
Last Line: Equilibrium.
Subject(s): Rats


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.





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