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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 59. I took my power in my hand

THE DUEL.


I took 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?