323 <br /> <br />As if I asked a common Alms, <br />And in my wondering hand <br />A Stranger pressed a Kingdom, <br />And I, bewildered, stand— <br />As if I asked the Orient <br />Had it for me a Morn— <br />And it should lift its purple Dikes, <br />And shatter me with Dawn!<br /><br />Emily Dickinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-if-i-asked-a-common-alms/