Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds

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Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds by Emily Dickinson

 Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds
To drink -- enables Mine
Through Desert or the Wilderness
As bore it Sealed Wine --

To go elastic -- Or as One
The Camel's trait -- attained --
How powerful the Stimulus
Of an Hermetic Mind --

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