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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 85. Superiority to fate

SUPERIORITY TO FATE.


Superiority to fate

Is difficult to learn.

'T is not conferred by any,

But possible to earn


A pittance at a time,

Until, to her surprise,

The soul with strict economy

Subsists till Paradise.

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