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Emily Dickinson #67

By Dwayne Betts
Jul 3 2009, 8:50 PM ET Comment

{Dwayne Betts}

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated - dying -
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!




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