And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet… - Emily Dickinson

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And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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We do not play on Graves — Because there isn't Room — Besides — it isn't even — it slants
And People come — And put a Flower on it — And hang their faces so — We're fearing that their Hearts will drop — And crush our pretty play — And so we move as far
As Enemies — away — Just looking round to see how far
It is — Occasionally —

In a serener Bright,
In a more golden light
I see
Each little doubt and fear,
Each little discord here
Removed.

Crumbling is not an instant's Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays.

'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust — Ruin is formal — Devil's work
Consecutive and slow — Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping — is Crash's law.

And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail! - Emily Dickinson

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