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Emily Dickinson

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Power is a familiar growth—
Not foreign—not to be—
Beside us like a bland Abyss
In every company—
Escape it—there is but a chance—
When consciousness and clay
Lean forward for a final glance—
Disprove that and you may—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1872

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