I found the phrase to every thought

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

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IFOUND the phrase to every thought

      I ever had, but one;

And that defies me,—as a hand

Did try to chalk the sun


To races nurtured in the dark;—

How would your own begin?

Can blaze be done in cochineal,

Or noon in mazarin?

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