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This Is The Place They Hoped Before

Emily Dickinson

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This is the place they hoped before,
Where I am hoping now.
The seed of disappointment grew
Within a capsule gay,
Too distant to arrest the feet
That walk this plank of balm-
Before them lies escapeless sea-
The way is closed they came.

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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