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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 36. I never hear the word "escape"

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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