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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 7 of 446 · First Series: Life

Almost!

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Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago.

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