To possess, is past the instant
We achieve the Joy --
Immortality contented
Were Anomaly.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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"My Faces are asleep --
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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His Bill an Auger is
His Head, a Cap and Frill
He laboreth at every Tree
A Worm, His utmost Goal.
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