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Luck is not chance --

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Luck is not chance -- by Emily Dickinson

 Luck is not chance --
It's Toil --
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned --
The Father of the Mine
Is that old-fashioned Coin
We spurned --

Form: Free verse

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