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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 126 of 446 · Second Series: Life

Compensation

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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

For each beloved hour Sharp pittances of years, Bitter contested farthings And coffers heaped with tears.

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