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Emily Dickinson

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An honest Tear
Is durabler than Bronze—
This Cenotaph
May each that dies—

Reared by itself—
No Deputy suffice—
Gratitude bears
When Obelisk decays

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1871

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