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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 41. The soul unto itself

The soul unto itself

Is an imperial friend, --

Or the most agonizing spy

An enemy could send.


Secure against its own,

No treason it can fear;

Itself its sovereign, of itself

The soul should stand in awe.

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