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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 306 of 446 · Third Series: Life

With Flowers

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If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not; And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot! And if to miss were merry, And if to mourn were gay, How very blithe the fingers That gathered these to-day!

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