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Emily Dickinson

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How News must feel when travelling
If News have any Heart
Alighting at the Dwelling
’Twill enter like a Dart!

What News must think when pondering
If News have any Thought
Concerning the stupendousness
Of its perceiveless freight!

What News will do when every Man
Shall comprehend as one
And not in all the Universe
A thing to tell remain?

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

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