“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!”

— Emily Dickinson, Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 22
Collected Poems (1993)

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