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You cannot put a fire out;

by Emily Dickinson, 1896

You cannot put a fire out;
  A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
  Upon the slowest night.

You cannot fold a flood
  And put it in a drawer, —
Because the winds would find it out,
  And tell your cedar floor.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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