Could Hope inspect her Basis
Could Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done -- Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none --
Balked in the vastest instance But to renew -- Felled by but one assassin -- Prosperity --
Emily Dickinson
Could Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done -- Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none --
Balked in the vastest instance But to renew -- Felled by but one assassin -- Prosperity --
Emily Dickinson treats hope as a craftswoman who can’t risk inspecting the ground she stands on. If Hope ever paused to examine her own “Basis,” her work would collapse—because her right to exist is either an invented document or simply nonexistent.
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