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The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime

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Author: Emily Dickinson | Date: 1914

XXXI.

THE Future never spoke,

Nor will he, like the Dumb,

Reveal by sign or syllable

Of his profound To-come.

But when the news be ripe,

Presents it in the Act-

Forestalling preparation

Escape or substitute.

Indifferent to him

The Dower as the Doom,

His office but to execute

Fate’s Telegram to him.

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Chicago: Emily Dickinson, "XXXI.," The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime Original Sources, accessed July 15, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1BX6M4SKZSCUAG.

MLA: Dickinson, Emily. "XXXI." The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, Original Sources. 15 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1BX6M4SKZSCUAG.

Harvard: Dickinson, E, 'XXXI.' in The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime. Original Sources, retrieved 15 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1BX6M4SKZSCUAG.