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Emily Dickinson

1640

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men—
Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily
When at my very Door are those possessing more,
In abject poverty—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1885

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