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As if I asked a common Alms,
And in my wondering hand
A Stranger pressed a Kingdom,
And I, bewildered, stand—
As if I asked the Orient
Had it for me a Morn—
And it should lift its purple Dikes,
And shatter me with Dawn!
Emily Dickinson
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-if-i-asked-a-common-alms/
