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Shall I Take Thee, The Poet Said

Emily Dickinson

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Shall I take thee, the Poet said
To the propounded word?
Be stationed with the Candidates
Till I have finer tried-

The Poet searched Philology
And when about to ring
For the suspended Candidate
There came unsummoned in-

That portion of the Vision
The Word applied to fill
Not unto nomination
The Cherubim reveal-

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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