The soul selects her own society,

  1. The soul selects her own society,
  2. Then shuts the door;
  3. On her divine majority
  4. Obtrude no more.
  5.  
  6. Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing
  7. At her low gate;
  8. Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling
  9. Upon her mat.
  10.  
  11. I've known her from an ample nation
  12. Choose one;
  13. Then close the valves of her attention
  14. Like stone.

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