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Experience is the Angled Road

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Experience is the Angled Road by Emily Dickinson

 Experience is the Angled Road
Preferred against the Mind
By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself --
Presuming it to lead

Quite Opposite -- How Complicate
The Discipline of Man --
Compelling Him to Choose Himself
His Preappointed Pain --

Form: Lyric

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