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I never hear the word "escape"

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

I never hear the word "escape"
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation,
A flying attitude.

I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars, —
Only to fail again!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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