The Duel

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

ITOOK my power in my hand.

      And went against the world;

'T was not so much as David had,

But I was twice as bold.


I aimed my pebble, but myself

Was all the one that fell.

Was it Goliath was too large,

Or only I too small?

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