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One Thing Of It We Borrow

Emily Dickinson

1464

One thing of it we borrow
And promise to return-
The Booty and the Sorrow
Its Sweetness to have known-
One thing of it we covet-
The power to forget-
The Anguish of the Avarice
Defrays the Dross of it-

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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