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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity XXXV |
| NO rack can torture me, | |
| My soul ’s at liberty. | |
| Behind this mortal bone | |
| There knits a bolder one | |
| You cannot prick with saw, | 5 |
| Nor rend with scymitar. | |
| Two bodies therefore be; | |
| Bind one, and one will flee. | |
| The eagle of his nest | |
| No easier divest | 10 |
| And gain the sky, | |
| Than mayest thou, | |
| Except thyself may be | |
| Thine enemy; | |
| Captivity is consciousness, | 15 |
| So’s liberty. |
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