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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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