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Emily Dickinson

1392

Hope is a strange invention—
A Patent of the Heart—
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out—

Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1877

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