Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Five: The Single Hound
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| A LITTLE over Jordan, | |
| As Genesis record, | |
| An Angel and a Wrestler | |
| Did wrestle long and hard. | |
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| Till, morning touching mountain, | 5 |
| And Jacob waxing strong, | |
| The Angel begged permission | |
| To breakfast and return. | |
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| “Not so,” quoth wily Jacob, | |
| And girt his loins anew, | 10 |
| “Until thou bless me, stranger!” | |
| The which acceded to: | |
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| Light swung the silver fleeces | |
| Peniel hills among, | |
| And the astonished Wrestler | 15 |
| Found he had worsted God! | |
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