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Could Hope inspect her Basis

Emily Dickinson
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“Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done —
Has a fictitious Charter
Or it has none —

Balked in the vastest instance
But to renew —
Felled but by one assassin —
Prosperity —”

Emily Dickinson Could Hope inspect her Basis

1283: Could Hope inspect her Basis
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

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