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Emily Dickinson

1522

His little Hearse like Figure
Unto itself a Dirge
To a delusive Lilac
The vanity divulge
Of Industry and Morals
And every righteous thing
For the divine Perdition
Of Idleness and Spring—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1881

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