The Complete Poems

of Emily Dickinson
edited by Thomas H. Johnson (PS 1541 .A1 1960 c.1)

#563 (pg 274)

I could not prove the Years had feet -
Yet confident they run
Am I, from symptoms that are past
And series that are done -

I find my feet have further Goals -
I smile upon the Aims
That felt so ample - Yesterday -
Today's - have vaster claims -

I do not dount the self I was
Was competent to me -
But something awkward in the fit -
Proves that - outgrown - I see