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Emily Dickinson

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Reverse cannot befall
That fine Prosperity
Whose Sources are interior—
As soon—Adversity

A Diamond—overtake
In far—Bolivian Ground—
Misfortune hath no implement
Could mar it—if it found—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1862

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