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Emily Dickinson1830–1886

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson on hope

“Hope” is the thing with feathers (1891), “”Hope” is the thing with feathers” (1891)

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