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Author: Emily Dickinson | Date: 1896

XXXI.

FATE slew him, but he did not drop;

She felled- he did not fall-

Impaled him on her fiercest stakes-

He neutralized them all.

She stung him, sapped his firm advance,

But, when her worst was done,

And he, unmoved, regarded her,

Acknowledged him a man.

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Chicago: Emily Dickinson, "XXXI.," Poems, Third Series Original Sources, accessed July 5, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=512WPFFHZGRMPXL.

MLA: Dickinson, Emily. "XXXI." Poems, Third Series, Original Sources. 5 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=512WPFFHZGRMPXL.

Harvard: Dickinson, E, 'XXXI.' in Poems, Third Series. Original Sources, retrieved 5 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=512WPFFHZGRMPXL.