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Emily Dickinson

1398

I have no Life but this—
To lead it here—
Nor any Death—but lest
Dispelled from there—

Nor tie to Earths to come—
Nor Action new—
Except through this extent—
The Realm of you—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1877

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