Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/The soul unto itself

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3647276Poems: Second Series — The soul unto itself1891Emily Dickinson

XV.

THE soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend, —
Or the most agonizing spy
An enemy could send.

Secure against its own,
No treason it can fear;
Itself its sovereign, of itself
The soul should stand in awe.