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

Part One: Life

LXXXV

SUPERIORITY to fate

Is difficult to learn.

’T is not conferred by any,

But possible to earn

A pittance at a time,

Until, to her surprise,

The soul with strict economy

Subsists till Paradise.