You cannot put a Fire out

Dickinson

You cannot put a Fire out— 
A Thing that can ignite 
Can go, itself, without a Fan—
 Upon the slowest Night—

You cannot fold a Flood—
 And put it in a Drawer—
 Because the Winds would find it out—
 And tell your Cedar Floor—


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