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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

LXXXII

I FIT for them,

I seek the dark till I am thorough fit.

The labor is a solemn one,

With this sufficient sweet—

That abstinence as mine produce

A purer good for them,

If I succeed,—

If not, I had

The transport of the Aim.