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Emily Dickinson

1321

Elizabeth told Essex
That she could not forgive
The clemency of Deity
However—might survive—
That secondary succor
We trust that she partook
When suing—like her Essex
For a reprieving Look—

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

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