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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 331 of 446 · Third Series: Life

Power

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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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