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Emily Dickinson

68

Ambition cannot find him.
Affection doesn’t know
How many leagues of nowhere
Lie between them now.

Yesterday, undistinguished!
Eminent Today
For our mutual hone, Immortality!

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1859

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