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She staked her Feathers Gained an Arc
She staked her Feathers Gained an Arc
Debated Rose again
This time beyond the estimate
Of Envy, or of Men
And now, among Circumference
Her steady Boat be seen
At home among the Billows As
The Bough where she was born
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