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Emily Dickinson

1189

The Voice that stands for Floods to me
Is sterile borne to some—
The Face that makes the Morning mean
Glows impotent on them—

What difference in Substance lies
That what is Sum to me
By other Financiers be deemed
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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1871

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