The Lamp burns sure -- within

Portrait of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
233Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Lamp burns sure -- within -- Tho' Serfs -- supply the Oil -- It matters not the busy Wick -- At her phosphoric toil!

The Slave -- forgets -- to fill -- The Lamp -- burns golden -- on -- Unconscious that the oil is out -- As that the Slave -- is gone.

From the bookComplete Poems of Emily DickinsonEdited by Thomas H. Johnson (Little, Brown)

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