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

Part Five: The Single Hound

VIII

REVERSE cannot befall that fine Prosperity

Whose sources are interior.

As soon Adversity

A diamond overtake,

In far Bolivian ground;

Misfortune hath no implement

Could mar it, if it found.