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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series

by Emily Dickinson

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XLIX Philosophy

It might be easier
  To fail with land in sight,
Than gain my blue peninsula
  To perish of delight.

L Power

You cannot put a fire out;
  A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
  Upon the slowest night.

You cannot fold a flood
  And put it in a drawer, —
Because the winds would find it out,
  And tell your cedar floor.

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