Not To Discover Weakness Is

Emily Dickinson

1054

Not to discover weakness is
The Artifice of strength—
Impregnability inheres
As much through Consciousness

Of faith of others in itself
As Pyramidal Nerve
Behind the most unconscious clock
What skilful Pointers move—

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