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That short, potential stir

by Emily Dickinson, 1890

That short, potential stir
That each can make but once,
That bustle so illustrious
'Tis almost consequence,

Is the eclat of death.
Oh, thou unknown renown
That not a beggar would accept,
Had he the power to spurn!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson
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