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All forgot for recollecting

Emily Dickinson

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All forgot for recollecting
Just a paltry One—
All forsook, for just a Stranger’s
New Accompanying—

Grace of Wealth, and Grace of Station
Less accounted than
An unknown Esteem possessing—
Estimate—Who can—

Home effaced—Her faces dwindled—
Nature—altered small—
Sun—if shone—or Storm—if shattered—
Overlooked I all—

Dropped—my fate—a timid Pebble—
In thy bolder Sea—
Prove—me—Sweet—if I regret it—
Prove Myself—of Thee—
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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1864
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