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Emily Dickinson: No Life can...

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No Life can pompless pass away --
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here --.

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 1626, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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