“I took my power in my hand
And went against the world;
’T was not so much as David had,
But I was twice as bold.

I aimed my pebble, but myself
Was all the one that fell.
Was it Goliath was too large,
Or only I too small?”

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

Life, p. 33
Collected Poems (1993)

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