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Emily Dickinson

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Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity—

Unable they that love—to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity.

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1864

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