Emily Dickinson - I never hear the word 'escape'

2014-11-07 30

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!

Emily Dickinson

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