Removed from Accident of Loss
By Accident of Gain
Befalling not my simple Days —
Myself had just to earn —
Of Riches — as unconscious
As is the Brown Malay
Of Pearls in Eastern Waters,
Marked His — What Holiday
Would stir his slow conception —
Had he the power to dream
That put the Dower’s fraction —
Awaited even — Him —
(Emily Dickinson)
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