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Emily Dickinson

1288

Lain in Nature—so suffice us
The enchantless Pod
When we advertise existence
For the missing Seed—

Maddest Heart that God created
Cannot move a sod
Pasted by the simple summer
On the Longed for Dead

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1873

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