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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 418 of 446 · Third Series: Time and Eternity

Poem 31

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I meant to find her when I came; Death had the same design; But the success was his, it seems, And the discomfit mine.

I meant to tell her how I longed For just this single time; But Death had told her so the first, And she had hearkened him.

To wander now is my abode; To rest, -- to rest would be A privilege of hurricane To memory and me.

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