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Emily Dickinson

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To pile like Thunder to its close
Then crumble grand away
While Everything created hid
This—would be Poetry—

Or Love—the two coeval come—
We both and neither prove—
Experience either and consume—
For None see God and live—

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

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