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You Cannot Put A Fire Out

Emily Dickinson

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You cannot put a Fire out-
A Thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a Fan-
Upon the slowest Night-

You cannot fold a Flood-
And put it in a Drawer-
Because the Winds would find it out-
And tell your Cedar Floor-

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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