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

Part One: Life

CXXXIII

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.