The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
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Success - is countedsweetesttsweetestBy those who ne'er succeed - To Comprehend a Nectar - Requires sorest need - Not one of all the Purple HostWho took the Flag - today - Can tell the Definition - so clear - of Victory - As He - defeated - dying - On whose forbidden ear - The distant strains of TriumphBurst - agonized - and Clear!