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Emily Dickinson

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Delight’s Despair at setting
Is that Delight is less
Than the sufficing Longing
That so impoverish.

Enchantment’s Perihelion
Mistaken oft has been
For the Authentic orbit
Of its Anterior Sun.

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1874

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