I never hear the word "escape"
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation
A flying attitude!
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Charged us to forget Him --
But we couldn't learn!
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With inference appalling
By Childhood fortified
We thought, at least they are no worse
Than they have been described.
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Was haughty and betrayed.
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A Rat surrendered here
A brief career of Cheer
And Fraud and Fear.
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