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Emily Dickinson

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I should not dare to be so sad
So many Years again—
A Load is first impossible
When we have put it down—

The Superhuman then withdraws
And we who never saw
The Giant at the other side
Begin to perish now.

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1871

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