Dickinson/Higginson Correspondence: Poem 1392

poems sent from dickinson to higginson

Hope is a strange invention -
A Patent of the Heart -
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out -

Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But it's unique momentum
Embellish all we own -

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