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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

IX

TO be alive is power,

Existence in itself,

Without a further function,

Omnipotence enough.

To be alive and Will—

’T is able as a God!

The Further of ourselves be what—

Such being Finitude?