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Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Title
Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Co.
1914
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XII.
THE MASTER.

HE fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees,
Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow, By fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow
Your breath has time to straighten, Your brain to bubble cool, —Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.
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