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Emily Dickinson

1283

Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done—
Has a fictitious Charter
Or it has none—

Balked in the vastest instance
But to renew—
Felled by but one assassin—
Prosperity—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1873

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