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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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The largest Fire ever known
Occurs each Afternoon —
Discovered is without surprise
Proceeds without concern —

Consumes and no report to men
An Occidental Town,
Rebuilt another morning
To be again burned down.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart
  2. Delight Becomes Pictorial
  3. A Thought Went up My Mind To-day
  4. Too Much
  5. The Show


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