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Emily Dickinson

1580

We shun it ere it comes,
Afraid of Joy,
Then sue it to delay
And lest it fly,
Beguile it more and more—
May not this be
Old Suitor Heaven,
Like our dismay at thee?

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1883

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