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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 420 of 446 · Third Series: Time and Eternity

Poem 33

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A sickness of this world it most occasions When best men die; A wishfulness their far condition To occupy.

A chief indifference, as foreign A world must be Themselves forsake contented, For Deity.

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