'Then the scaffolds drop': Emily Dickinson's home getting new life

I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors – Of Chambers as the Cedars – Impregnable of eye – And for an everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky – — The ocher, cupola-topped mansion of the poet Emily Dickinson rises impressively on a hill...

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