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A Prison gets to be a friend –
Between its Ponderous face
And Ours – a Kinsmanship express –
And in its narrow Eyes –
We come to look with gratitude
For the appointed Beam
It deal us – stated as our food –
And hungered for – the same –
We learn to know the Planks –
That answer to Our feet –
So miserable a sound – at first –
Nor ever now – so sweet –
As plashing in the Pools –
When Memory was a Boy –
But a Demurer Circuit –
A Geometric Joy –
The Posture of the Key
That interrupt the Day
To Our Endeavor – Not so real
The Check of Liberty –
As this Phantasm Steel –
Whose features – Day and Night –
Are present to us – as Our Own –
And as escapeless – quite –
The narrow Round – the Stint –
The slow exchange of Hope –
For something passiver – Content
Too steep for lookinp up –
The Liberty we knew
Avoided – like a Dream –
Too wide for any Night but Heaven –
If That – indeed – redeem –
(Emily Dickinson)
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