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Emily Dickinson

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A Diamond on the Hand
To Custom Common grown
Subsides from its significance
The Gem were best unknown—
Within a Seller’s Shrine
How many sight and sigh
And cannot, but are mad for fear
That any other buy.

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1867

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