Hope is a strange invention—

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

Hope is a strange invention —

A Patent of the Heart —

In unremitting action

Yet never wearing out —


Of this electric Adjunct

Not anything is known

But its unique momentum

Embellish all we own —

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