Speech Is One Symptom Of Affection

Emily Dickinson

1681

Speech is one symptom of Affection
And Silence one—
The perfectest communication
Is heard of none—

Exists and its indorsement
Is had within—
Behold, said the Apostle,
Yet had not seen!

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