Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day lyrics
by Emily Dickinson
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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