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Emily Dickinson

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A Sickness of this World it most occasions
When Best Men die.
A Wishfulness their far Condition
To occupy.

A Chief indifference, as Foreign
A World must be
Themselves forsake—contented,
For Deity.

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1865

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