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Did Lifes Penurious Length

Emily Dickinson

1717

Did life's penurious length
Italicize its sweetness,
The men that daily live
Would stand so deep in joy
That it would clog the cogs
Of that revolving reason
Whose esoteric belt
Protects our sanity.

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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