Power

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

YOU cannot put a fire out;

      A thing that can ignite

Can go, itself, without a fan

      Upon the slowest night.


You cannot fold a flood

      And put it in a drawer,—

Because the winds would find it out,

      And tell your cedar floor.

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