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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part One: Life CXIV |
| FATE slew him, but he did not drop; | |
| She felled—he did not fall— | |
| Impaled him on her fiercest stakes— | |
| He neutralized them all. | |
| She stung him, sapped his firm advance, | 5 |
| But, when her worst was done, | |
| And he, unmoved, regarded her, | |
| Acknowledged him a man. |
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