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

Part Five: The Single Hound

CVII

AMBITION cannot find him,

Affection doesn’t know

How many leagues of Nowhere

Lie between them now.

Yesterday undistinguished—

Eminent to-day,

For our mutual honor—

Immortality!