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Portrait of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson,  As if I asked a common Alms, — 24

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As if I asked a common alms -
And in my wondering hand,
A stranger pressed a kingdom -
And I - bewildered stand -
As if I asked the Orient
Had it for me a morn?
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