Further Poems of Emily Dickinson/Expectation is contentment;

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EXPECTATION is contentment;
Gain, satiety.
But satiety, conviction
Of necessity.

Of an austere trait in pleasure.
Good, without alarm,
Is a too serene possession—
Danger deepens suns.

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