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Emily Dickinson

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Behold this little Bane—
The Boon of all alive—
As common as it is unknown
The name of it is Love—

To lack of it is Woe—
To own of it is Wound—
Not elsewhere—if in Paradise
Its Tantamount be found—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1878

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