Read the poem: “The Master”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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The Master

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He fumbles at your spirit

   As players at the keys

Before they drop full music on;

   He stuns you by degrees,

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Prepares your brittle substance

   For the ethereal blow,

By fainter hammers, further heard,

   Then nearer, then so slow

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Your breath has time to straighten,

   Your brain to bubble cool, —

Deals one imperial thunderbolt

   That scalps your naked soul.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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