Read the poem: “Choice”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Choice

Of all the souls that stand create

I have elected one.

When sense from spirit files away,

And subterfuge is done;

When that which is and that which was

Apart, intrinsic, stand,

And this brief tragedy of flesh

Is shifted like a sand;

When figures show their royal front

And mists are carved away, —

Behold the atom I preferred

To all the lists of clay!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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