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Reverse cannot befall
That fine Prosperity
Whose Sources are interior -
As - Adversity

A Diamond - overtake
In far - Bolivian Ground -
Misfortune hath no implement
Could mar it - if it found

NOTES

This poem was written in 1862. Dickinson seems to be saying that one source of inner strength is adversity and unchecked misfortune.

It is #395 in Johnson, Complete Poems


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