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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 91 of 446 · First Series: Time and Eternity

Refuge

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The clouds their backs together laid, The north begun to push, The forests galloped till they fell, The lightning skipped like mice; The thunder crumbled like a stuff -- How good to be safe in tombs, Where nature's temper cannot reach, Nor vengeance ever comes!

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