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CRUMBLING IS NOT AN INSTANT'S ACT by EMILY DICKINSON

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Last Line: FAIL IN AN INSTANT, NO MAN DID %SLIPPING - IS CRASHE'S LAW

Crumbling is not an instant's Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays.

'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust -

Ruin is formal - Devil's work
Consecutive and slow -
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping - is Crash's law.




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