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By Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul, / And sings the tune without the words, / And never stops at all,
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- Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series, 1891 · Book I, Life, "Hope", p. 27
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- Internet Archive (University of Toronto scan of the Roberts Brothers Second Series, Boston, 1892 printing of the 1891 edition)
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The first stanza of "Hope" from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series, edited by T. W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891), Book I, Life, no. VI. The early editors changed some of her punctuation and wording, so this is the 1891 text, not her manuscript. Verse lines are separated by a slash (/).