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Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Require sorest need. Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag… - Emily Dickinson
" "Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Require sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.
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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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She dealt her pretty words like Blades — How glittering they shone — And every One unbared a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone — She never deemed — she hurt — That — is not Steel's Affair — A vulgar grimace in the Flesh — How ill the Creatures bear — To Ache is human — not polite — The Film upon the eye
Mortality's old Custom — Just locking up — to Die.
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