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1830–1886

THE SPIRIT.

Emily Dickinson

‘ T is whiter than an Indian pipe, ‘ T is dimmer than a lace; No stature has it, like a fog, When you approach the place.

Not any voice denotes it here, Or intimates it there; A spirit, how doth it accost? What customs hath the air?

This limitless hyperbole Each one of us shall be; ‘ T is drama, if ( hypothesis ) It be not tragedy!

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