How red the Fire rocks below --
How insecure the sod
Did I disclose
Would populate with awe my solitude.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Nods from the Gilded pointers --
Nods from the Seconds slim --
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life --
And Him --
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To earn a Mine -- would run
That Interdicted Way,
And tell Him -- Charge thee speak it plain --
That so far -- Truth is True?
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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From such a common ball as this
Might date a Victory!
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