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I never hear the word escape by Emily Dickinson Lyrics

Genre: misc | Year: 1891

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!