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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
77

I never hear the word “escape”
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation
A flying attitude!

I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars
Only to fail again!
Book: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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