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1830–1886

JOY IN DEATH.

Emily Dickinson

If tolling bell I ask the cause. ‘ A soul has gone to God,’ I'm answered in a lonesome tone; Is heaven then so sad?

That bells should joyful ring to tell A soul had gone to heaven, Would seem to me the proper way A good news should be given.

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