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Emily Dickinson

1351

You cannot take itself
From any Human soul—
That indestructible estate
Enable him to dwell—
Impregnable as Light
That every man behold
But take away as difficult
As undiscovered Gold—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1875

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