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Classic poem

Could Hope inspect her Basis

by Emily Dickinson

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 by but one assassin --

Prosperity --

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