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Emily Dickinson

1292

Yesterday is History,
’Tis so far away—
Yesterday is Poetry—
’Tis Philosophy—

Yesterday is mystery—
Where it is Today
While we shrewdly speculate
Flutter both away

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

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