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Sweet, To Have Had Them Lost

Emily Dickinson

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Sweet, to have had them lost
For news that they be saved-
The nearer they departed Us
The nearer they, restored,

Shall stand to Our Right Hand-
Most precious and the Dead-
Next precious
Those that rose to go-
Then thought of Us, and stayed.

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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