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Who abdicated Ambush

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Who abdicated Ambush by Emily Dickinson

 Who abdicated Ambush
And went the way of Dusk,
And now against his subtle Name
There stands an Asterisk
As confident of him as we --
Impregnable we are --
The whole of Immortality
Secreted in a Star.

Form: Free verse

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