Lyric Poem · Hope
Could Hope inspect her Basis
Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done —
Has a fictitious Charter
Or it has none —
Balked in the vastest instance
But to renew —
Felled by but one assassin —
Prosperity —
This poem is in the public domain.
“Could Hope inspect her Basis” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/could-hope-inspect-her-basis
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