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Emily Dickinson

1604

We send the Wave to find the Wave—
An Errand so divine,
The Messenger enamored too,
Forgetting to return,
We make the wise distinction still,
Soever made in vain,
The sagest time to dam the sea is when the sea is gone—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1884

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