Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

Reverse Cannot Befall

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Reverse cannot befall
That fine Prosperity
Whose Sources are interior—
As soon—Adversity

A Diamond—overtake
In far—Bolivian Ground—
Misfortune hath no implement
Could mar it—if it found—
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