Life LXVI. WHEN I hoped I feared, par Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Life LXVI. WHEN I hoped I feared

Part One: Life

LXVI

WHEN I hoped I feared,

Since I hoped I dared;

Everywhere alone

As a church remain;

Spectre cannot harm,

Serpent cannot charm;

He deposes doom,

Who hath suffered him.

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