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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

I Never Hear the Word 'Escape’

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!

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