I thought that nature was enough

I thought that nature was enough
Till human nature came,
But that the other did absorb
As firmament a flame.

Of human nature just aware
There added the divine
Brief struggle for capacity.
The power to contain

Is always as the contents,
But give a giant room
And you will lodge a giant
And not a lesser man.

Emily Dickinson

From: Poems of Emily Dickinson selected by Helen Plotz
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