Emily Dickinson
Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
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Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
That arise and set about Us
Other Tragedy

Perish in the Recitation
This — the best enact
When the Audience is scattered
And the Boxes shut

"Hamlet" to Himself were Hamlet
Had not Shakespeare wrote
Though the "Romeo" left no Record
Of his Juliet

It were infinite enacted
In the Human Heart
Only Theatre recorded
Owner cannot shut