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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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Poems by Emily Dickinson
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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.
Poems by Emily Dickinson